Quotes About Corruption

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

T]here remains [in some parts of the country] a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Govt. & Religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

During the darkest years of the Iraq war, between 2004 and 2008, there were at least thirty-five convictions in the United States and more than $17 million in fines, forfeitures, and restitution payments made in fraud cases in connection with the American reconstruction of Iraq. But the midlevel officers, enlisted personnel, contractors, and others who have been caught account for only a tiny slice of the billions that have gone missing in Iraq. The biggest thieves have been far more elusive.

Today, at least $11.7 billion of the approximately $20 billion the CPA ordered sent to Iraq from New York is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared.

The money quickly began to disappear into the rucksacks and footlockers of the officers and enlisted personnel who had access to it; some was mailed home to wives and girlfriends. The stealing in Iraq reached epic proportions.

United States, who were certainly invested in stopping the Chinese takeover of Africa. But America had its hands tied, requiring democratic reforms and fiscal transparency before they would offer aid to the DRC. And in a country that was ranked 168 out of 198 on the Corruption Perceptions Index, such reforms were an impossibility.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. —Hosea 9:9

file. "James Miller. We'll need to determine if he is corrupt, or merely the unwitting tool of others.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty," Henry Demarest Lloyd

Each party profited by the offices when in power," Roosevelt explained, "and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly what it itself had done and intended again to do.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

At this introductory stage of his career, Roosevelt viewed politics in a puritanical light, as an arena where good battled evil. He had seen his father's dreams of high office undone by corruption; he had absorbed his father's warning that the country could not much longer stand "so corrupt a government.

I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for

Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

Ye cannae fix injustice-with more of it.

the bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.

If you're honest with yourself, you can still feel the terrible weight of time pressing on you; that awful, relentless, bodily corruption that is happening constantly to us all.

make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.

This idea that animals in nature are uncorrupt and peaceful, while man is corrupt, violent, and unnatural, is sheer, unadulterated, unmitigated, onehundred-percent crap.