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"Corruption Keeps Us Safe and Warm"

by Last Night in Little Rock

Corruption charges... Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficencies in the form of regulation. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddam Nobel Prise. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is out protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scaps of meat out in the street. Corruption is why we win!

Syriana, imdb and website, Tim Blake Nelson as Danny Dalton, spoken to Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar ch. 9 (1897)

All in all, not the best Congre$$ money can buy.

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  • Re: "Corruption Keeps Us Safe and Warm" (none / 0) (#1)
    by Dadler on Wed Jan 04, 2006 at 03:44:55 PM EST
    Definitely the best line(s) of the movie.