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The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

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

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!)

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

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

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 now have a national reputation for corruption.

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

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

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders 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 a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

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