Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.

It’s not hush money. It’s simply dollars backed not by faith, but by shhh.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

{From Luther Burbank’s funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death}It is impossible to...