Corruption quotes

“Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption.”
Jason Patric - Shakes

“- Max Devlin: You want me to corrupt the souls of little kids? See, I've never been much on kids... but that's not a nice thing.
- Barney Satin: Neither is Level 4.
- Max Devlin: Where do I sign?”

Elliott Gould - Max Devlin
Bill Cosby - Barney Satin

“We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“Absolute power corrupts. Better to be powerless.”

Alberta Watson - Hansel's Mom

“- Thomas Fowler: Morning Hinh!
- Hinh: Yeah!
- Thomas Fowler: Anything new?
- Hinh: Oh! Corruption, mendacity...
- Thomas Fowler: I said new.”
Sir Michael Caine - Thomas Fowler
Tzi Ma - Hinh

“Man, I love cops. If there were no hot shit cops like Gentry around, the competition would be so heavy there'd be nothing left to steal.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“There's nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash.”
Frank Langella - Boris Balkan

“- Scott Dantley: I know your father. Great senator, great American, outstanding human being.
- Jack Issel: He's managed to stay out of jail despite the bribery, corruption, tax evasion, solicitation, and domestic abuse charges that have been brought against him. At least me and my mom are proud of him for that.”
Michael O'Donoghue - Scott Dantley
Judge Reinhold - Jack Issel

“This valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.”

Hugo Weaving - V

“Mr. Silver, you just bought yourself a champion.”

Sean Kanan - Mike Barnes

“The law means everything to me and if any arm of the law is corrupt nothing can work, nothing. It is simple as that.”
James Tolkan - Assistant U.S. Atty. George Polito

“- Amsterdam Vallon: Suppose you back an Irish candidate, of my choosin', and I'll deliver all the Irish vote?
- William 'Boss' Tweed: That will only happen in the reign of Queen Dick.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“- Franz Sanchez: In this business, there's a lot of cash. And a lot of people with their hands out.
- Kwang: In a word... bribery.
- Franz Sanchez: Exactly. He took the words right out of my pocket.”
Robert Davi - Franz Sanchez
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Kwang

“We haven't got any use for gamblers around here. You've done your best to ruin baseball, and horse racing, and this is one game that's clean and is gonna stay clean.”
Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne

“- Sam Lowry: Are you alive? Well you don't deserve to be! It was a bomb, I knew it!
- Jill Layton: Here's your bomb! A bribe for corporate stooges like you. Come on, make yourself useful.”
Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry
Kim Greist - Jill Layton

“Well, you know, in Mexico, law enforcement is an entrepreneurial activity. Not so much in the states, anyway, we, uh... We hire drivers with nothing and throw a lot of product at the problem. Some gets stopped, enough gets through. It's not difficult. Look, boys, this has worked for years, okay. It's going to continue to work for years.”
Don Cheadle - Montel Gordon

“Let's say one group of people, like the American people, pay you $400,000 a year to be president of the United States. But then another group of people invest in you, your friends, and their related businesses, $ 1.4 billion over a number of years. Who are you gonna like? Who's your daddy?”
Michael Francis Moore - Narrator

“Perverting common wisdom, nephew, is a mark of all great conspiracies.”
Ian McNeice - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

“- Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.
- Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core.”
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith
Suzanna Hamilton - Julia

“- Lorraine Danel: You've tried everything else and failed. No matter what you do, you'll always fail!
- Stephen Danel: I've never failed and I never will fail.”

Rochelle Hudson - Lorraine Danel
Peter Lorre - Stephen Danel

“You want a conviction, but you've got these stupid search and seizure laws. And wiretaps. Case one never got made without an illegal wiretap. And you're never gonna get a conviction if a cop don't commit perjury. What is it that you want? You want the big dealer out of business? The only way I know to push him out of business is to steal his...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Page - Detective Raf Alvarez

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician

“- Blondie O'Hara: Those aren't customers, those are voters. They ship 'em from all over the state. Each of 'em vote ten, twelve times. Used to get their names outta the cemetary, but I don't even think they bother anymore.
- Johnny Flynn: [to crowd of men] You'll be exercising your God-given right to vote. However, you'll be voting the way I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Blondie O'Hara
Steve Buscemi - Johnny Flynn
Miranda Richardson - Carolyn Stilton

“- Gordo: What Jammer needs is a good shyster.
- Lana: Barkley's father's a shyster! And a lawyer.”
Albert Insinnia - Gordo
Kimberly Beck - Lana

“- Luke Fuchs: $10,000. Is that all it takes to be elected senator these days.
- Rudy: Well, that's more like a down payment. After I'm elected its 50-50 on all the graft I take.”
Jack Warden - Luke Fuchs
Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo