Quotes About Bribery

Trent sighed, visibly bothered at my admittedly childish behavior, but I was hot, damn it, and needed money, and therefore I was vulnerable to his bribes and his air-conditioned car.

Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater and greater wealth.

To cover these massive commissions, BAC inflated the price of each Lightning jet by £50,000, listing the cost as 'Agency Fees'. The commissions went not only to Gaith Pharaon but also to five Saudi princes.

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

All this has important implications for rearing children. It suggests that we should never heavily bribe or threaten our children to do the things we want them truly to believe in.

Exodus 23:8–"And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight and perverteth the words of the righteous.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

It was an era of expansion, but also of plunder. Bribery secured public contracts and the contractor then overcharged the state,

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it's not hard to see how a bribery charge can feel like a technical argument instead of a moral one.

The certificate of deposit was more difficult to trace than a check and was the instrument of choice for political bribery.

Bribing Frank's secretary with candy and theater tickets, Slaght gained access to Frank, who was no less protective of his father than John was.

Others talked of bribery; of course nothing could be proved.

But she would not participate in that sort of thing, even if it meant that she lost the election. If you won on the basis of lies and false promises—bribes, really—then your victory would be a hollow one.

To cement the unity of the nation, Romania did what many new nations do (and go on doing): she expanded the public sector, thus creating jobs for the scions of the 'native' middle classes and of the lower nobility. The result was an elephantine bureaucracy, open to corruption and bribery,

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.