Those who condemn all politicians outright are really making the same kind of generalizations that are responsible for racism and bigotry, e.g. all Indians are lazy, all Irishmen are brawling drunkards, all farmers are aid=seeking whiners. Can you doubt that some corruption, major or minor, was and is present in almost every government that has ever existed? The main difference is that it was kept hidden and quiet, though often suspected, in the past, and still is in most of the world,...

Thus though we now see and hear more news of corruption than ever before, there is probably less of it in total.

-- from Interesting tidbits found while spring cleaning by Terry Chamberlain in the Saskatoon Sun