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“In 1970 only 3 percent of senators and congresspeople leaving office became lobbyists; now over 50 percent do,”
― Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United

“The two national powers that dominated the colonies, France and Britain, represented two different models of corruption. Britain was seen as a failed ideal. It was corrupted republic, a place where the premise of government was basically sound but civic virtue—that of the public and public officials—was degenerating. On the other hand, France was seen as more essentially corrupt, a nation in which there was no true polity, but instead exchanges of luxury for power; a nation populated by weak subjects and flattering courtiers. Britain was the greater tragedy, because it held the promise of integrity, whereas France was simply something of a civic cesspool.”
― Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United