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Bribes and boy bands. That's all you need to be a babysitter. -- Mindy Kaling
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations -- Gayle Forman
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. -- Gore Vidal
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. -- Timothy Noah
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. -- John le Carre
In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. -- Mo Ibrahim
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules. -- Wang Jianlin
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? -- Marsilio Ficino
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense. -- James Surowiecki
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give. -- Jack Cade
They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. -- Jack Cade
Death takes no bribes. -- Benjamin Franklin
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. -- Michael Parenti
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. -- Francis Bacon
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes. -- Joseph Conrad
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. -- Adam Johnson
President Bush has urged people to get back to normal and today Congress announced that they are accepting bribes again. -- Jay Leno
Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. -- James Alan Gardner
I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. -- Bryan Swanson
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men. -- Thomas More
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter. -- Nikolai Gogol
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. -- Barbara Tuchman
American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. -- Larry Pressler
Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation -- Sunday Adelaja
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes. -- Dave Barry
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, We dont offer bribes, or companies that operate only by market rules. -- Wang Jianlin
Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted. -- David Letterman
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim. -- Aeschylus
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. -- Alexander Pope
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. -- Jack Cade
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage. -- Susanna Clarke
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? -- John Brunner

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