Quotes About Corruption

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

Those is power being largely corrupt, recognize that a non functional and corrupt judiciary will allow them to escape punishment even when they get caught.

Bipartisan reformers have long recognized that earmarks make way for corruption.

For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

In countries that lack a longstanding and entrenched commitment to the rule of law, it can be hard to recruit, train and keep prosecutors and judges who are both independent and effective, even in the face of attempted intimidation or corruption.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

What I'm saying is I want to elect people that are God-fearing people, people that will not allow their hearts to get corrupted, by money or by anybody.

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.

Hell hath no fury like a politican scorned.