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Quotes About Corruption

The want of money is the root of all evil.
~ Samuel Butler
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
~ Bob Beckel
Professional wrestling, when you're talking money, like they say, it's the root of all evil.
~ Bruno Sammartino
It is possible for great nations to rot from within.
~ Benjamin Wittes
In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Politics itself is not sacred any more.
~ Donald Tusk
History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
~ Ken Burns
Bofors was a scam. Rafale is not.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
This is what life is like with the Clintons. It is one scandal after another, and you never know what's coming next. They use the system to enrich themselves.
~ Paul Ryan
Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
~ Winnie Byanyima
Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.
~ Tom Fitton
We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.
~ Cyril Ramaphosa
At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.
~ Steve Bullock
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
~ Eric Greitens
I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'
~ Joseph Brodsky
Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.
~ Bill Gross
The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.
~ Mian Muhammad Mansha
High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.
~ Mayawati
We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
~ Gary Johnson
Our corrupt, partisan media are embarrassing.
~ Mollie Hemingway
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
~ Matt Taibbi