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The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking? – Tom McClintock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So we didn't just get unlimited money from Citizens United, we got unlimited anonymous, corrupting money, and now they have taken a case where they're looking to give anonymous unlimited corrupting money a constitutional right. We cannot let that happen. – Sheldon Whitehouse	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Gangs are preying on our most vulnerable, corrupting these young minds with promises of familia and lucre, none of us should accept that we have adults here and across Chicago preying upon vulnerable teenage boys. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession. – Thomas Sowell	added by Normando 3 years ago
He learned that he could get away with corrupting his office with absolutely no consequences. – Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy	Found on CNN 4 years ago
What he did was not 'perfect,' no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep one's self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine. – Republican Senator Mitt Romney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did, corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine. – Senate Republican	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our goal from the beginning has been to hold the defendants fully accountable for corrupting the college admissions process through cheating, bribery and fraud. The superseding indictments will further that effort. – Gamal Abdelaziz	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other. – Alexander Hamilton	added by Normando 4 years ago
Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America. – Jerry Falwell	added by Normando 5 years ago
JACK NICHOLSON: My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Which is? JACK NICHOLSON: That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let's talk about acting for a minute. – Jack Nicholson	added by Normando 5 years ago
Sex is seen as dirty and corrupting in Japan, my students can't use the word' penis' or' vagina,' and if a woman expresses any knowledge or interest in sex, you're seen as a fallen women. Men don't talk about it, either. – Kukhee Choo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Protecting clean athletes goes hand in hand with ensuring that the environment in which athletes operate is safe from corrupting influences. – Thomas Bach	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Yes, these times are difficult for sport. But yes, it is also an opportunity to renew the trust in this power of sport to change the world for the better, protecting clean athletes goes hand in hand with ensuring that the environment in which athletes operate is safe from corrupting influences. – Thomas Bach	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans, our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is very unbecoming of the senator to rely on these types of sources for his funds and for raising funds from others, it really raises some questions as to his ability to discern the potentially corrupting influence of money. – Craig Holman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Although substantially diminished, the threat posed to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters by organized crime and other corrupting influences persists. – Preet Bharara	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. – Saul David Alinsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. – William Henry Harrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting. – Alan John Percivale Taylor	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking?

– Tom McClintock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So we didn't just get unlimited money from Citizens United, we got unlimited anonymous, corrupting money, and now they have taken a case where they're looking to give anonymous unlimited corrupting money a constitutional right. We cannot let that happen.

– Sheldon Whitehouse

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gangs are preying on our most vulnerable, corrupting these young minds with promises of familia and lucre, none of us should accept that we have adults here and across Chicago preying upon vulnerable teenage boys.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.

– Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
3 years ago

He learned that he could get away with corrupting his office with absolutely no consequences.

– Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

What he did was not 'perfect,' no, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep one's self in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

– Republican Senator Mitt Romney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did, corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

– Senate Republican

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our goal from the beginning has been to hold the defendants fully accountable for corrupting the college admissions process through cheating, bribery and fraud. The superseding indictments will further that effort.

– Gamal Abdelaziz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.

– Alexander Hamilton

added by Normando
4 years ago

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

– Jerry Falwell

added by Normando
5 years ago

JACK NICHOLSON: My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Which is? JACK NICHOLSON: That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let's talk about acting for a minute.

– Jack Nicholson

added by Normando
5 years ago

Sex is seen as dirty and corrupting in Japan, my students can't use the word' penis' or' vagina,' and if a woman expresses any knowledge or interest in sex, you're seen as a fallen women. Men don't talk about it, either.

– Kukhee Choo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Protecting clean athletes goes hand in hand with ensuring that the environment in which athletes operate is safe from corrupting influences.

– Thomas Bach

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yes, these times are difficult for sport. But yes, it is also an opportunity to renew the trust in this power of sport to change the world for the better, protecting clean athletes goes hand in hand with ensuring that the environment in which athletes operate is safe from corrupting influences.

– Thomas Bach

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our elections, corrupting our political system, and drowning out the voices of too many everyday Americans, our democracy should be about expanding the franchise, not charging an entrance fee.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is very unbecoming of the senator to rely on these types of sources for his funds and for raising funds from others, it really raises some questions as to his ability to discern the potentially corrupting influence of money.

– Craig Holman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Although substantially diminished, the threat posed to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters by organized crime and other corrupting influences persists.

– Preet Bharara

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

– Saul David Alinsky

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

– William Henry Harrison

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

– Alan John Percivale Taylor

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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