With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln – Second Inaugural Address
Saturday, March 4, 1865 – Famous Speeches

Political Corruption Quotes

Gifts and money from lobbyists are an unseemly pocket of corruption in the political process.
- David Phillips

Corruption is corruption, no matter when one stands politically.
- Jiggity

Political corruption at any level imperils the representative process. It should be opposed at every step, at all times, regardless of political affiliation. Ecrasez l’infame!
- David Lajaunie

As an Arizona resident who is politically conservative, I join with other bloggers in supporting Congressmen John Shadegg of Arizona in the race for majority leader of the House of Representatives. It’s about time we see some new leadership who is not tainted by scandals and influences of the past.
- Karen of Scottsdale

Political Quotes and Corruption Quotes From the Truth Laid Bear

An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers

“The new leadership in the House of Representatives needs to be thoroughly and transparently free of the taint of the Jack Abramoff scandals, and beyond that, of undue influence of K Street. ”

Jack Abramoff Scandal – Details

Per FEC records here
is the list of monies received by Republicans and Democrats by Abramoff

The Truth Laid Bear: An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers

The Truth Laid Bear: An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- Charles de Gaulle