Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

A badge (police badge) isnt a hallmark of impunity, its a trademark of justice!

98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

Accept little bribes, and you have little integrity. Reject some bribes, and you have selective integrity. Reject every bribe, and you have great integrity.

A corrupt nation is born not from corrupt politicians, but from corrupt citizens.

A corrupt government is born not from corrupt politicians, but from corrupt citizens.

A corrupt corporate government employs blatantly corrupt scientists.

A corruption of intentions.

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

African economists have argued that corruption—not Western colonialism, not lack of Western aid—is why Africa hasn’t escaped poverty. These economists have begged Western countries to stop giving monetary aid to corrupt African countries because nearly all the money goes to corrupt government officials and thereby further increases their corrupt power. Meanwhile, in Europe, North America, Japan, Singapore, and a handful of other countries, corruption is far more likely to be prosecuted and therefore far less prevalent. That is a major reason for their continuing prosperity.

A funny word. E-lec-tion. Say it very slowly and it sounds disgusting. But if you say it just fast enough it almost sounds real, like it might even be legitimate

Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.

All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.