Popular Bribe Quotes & Sayings

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular
not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people. — Walter Lippmann

The greed of power drowns our ethics. — Henry Johnson Jr

With all my songs, I try to pull from personal experiences, like moving and changing locations. — Shaun Fleming

I think that certainly my choices empower me. — Kyra Sedgwick

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy. — Gary Coleman

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance. — Arjuna Ardagh

The New Year, the New Year. Everywhere the New Year! The Old Year was already looked upon as dead; and its effects were selling cheap, like some drowned mariner's aboardship. Its patterns were Last Year's, and going at a sacrifice, before its breath was gone. Its treasures were mere dirt, beside the riches of its unborn successor! — Charles Dickens

Cruelties should be committed all at once. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Brendon wasn't exactly surprised to find Mitch sitting by the lake at three in the morning, staring out over the still water. Of course, he would have much preferred if he wasn't sitting with a crocodile next to him. It was one thing to enjoy a predatory game of tug with him, but it was another to treat him like the family's pet dog. — Shelly Laurenston