There are tons of jokes about venal politicians.

Most people in this country are actually more generous and thoughtful than corrupt and venal politicians believe.

Harper's Weekly blamed the riots on the fact that intelligent citizens had ceded politics to venal politicians.

In the process, the child encounters cruelty, venal politicians and state officials who look down on Indians.

Ishiwara envisioned a one-party "national defense state" with a command economy in which political parties were abolished and venal politicians and greedy businessmen removed from power.

Yet the exercise of such rights would be mainly to try to undo the mess that venal and incompetent politicians have created.

He said the militants had played a major role in the degradation of this nation of 140 million Muslims, along with venal politicians.

This is the quintessential failed state, whose failure foreign armies, militant fighters and venal politicians appear hellbent on continuing.

Why, then, should Japan's venal politicians care how they are rated?

On the political level, Lebanon's venal and corrupt politicians offer no hope of a solution and continue to negate and block one another at every turn.