Definition of the Day 1-26-16 — Speaking Fee

SPEAKING FEE, n. Payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to a politician by a bank or other corporation for half-an-hour’s “work.” Such payments, of course, have no effect whatsoever on the politican’s policies—espeically those bearing on the interests of the corporation.

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary