bribery

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!

What did __ood government_ really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There__ no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of __onest graft_ were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective__hat of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram__ elite network__anglie didn__ so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn__ opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn__ want to have to break the law to serve them.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.