Quotes About Corruption

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

If my idol Mahatma Gandhi could fight to eradicate corruption at the age of 78, why can't I try at 60?

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

The law is immoral.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the preservation of political liberty threatened by the apparent corruption of the constitution, and the establishment in principle of the existing conditions of liberty.

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.

Politics and governments -- they are more than I can understand. Present systems are corrupted by personal ambition. It is all so complicated and insincere. Conditions are much worse now than they were during the war. In 1914 we went into the fight without argument. We finished it with very little, but now, strangely enough, comes all the wrangling, the restrictions, the selfishness.

Inequality, corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism are inseparable. They must be understood as part of the same system, and fought in the same way.

The very existence of billionaires is not just about who has the money and who doesn't. It is also a manifestation of a corrupt political system, in which immense power over the lives of the great mass of Americans is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people who—through campaign finance arrangements that can only be described as legalized bribery—buy control of our elections and the policies that extend from them.