Quotes About Corruption

To me, a very basic political principle is that you cannot take on the establishment when you take their money.

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

1.Tanr?: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, baya??l?k, pislik! DoÄŸay? da katletmiÅŸler.Güzelim aÄŸaçlar? tellerle idam etmiÅŸler.DaÄŸlar?n ötesinde duman bulutlar?ndan göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsünün yerini top sesleri alm??. Bütün bunlar?n aras?nda paças?n? kurtarabilen tek kiÅŸiye rastlamad?k.

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

You heard of honest Socrates, The man who never lied: They weren't so grateful as you think. Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the people's noble son! The world however didn't wait But soon observed what followed on. It's honesty that brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none!

Potkupljivost je u ljudi isto što u Boga milosr?e.

As crimes pile up, they become invisible.

She will be challenged to develop intimacy in an environment in which all intimate relationships are corrupt. She will be challenged to develop an identity out of an environment which defines her as a worthless slave.

The greatest sin a man or woman can commit is the abuse of power.

Politics are the means by which they who can't or won't steal from those who can and do.

goodness is murdered, mediocrity thrives...

Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

The corrupting aspect of attack journalism is that it is almost always based on anonymous sourcing.

black, and become infested with maggots—thus the inability to sit astride

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The fact that many journalists approach the Clintons - especially Hillary Clinton - with a presumption that she has done something that if it's not outright corrupt is at least worthy of looking into, inevitably colors the way the public views the former secretary of state, and the way they respond to her in the polls.

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.

The worst sense of security is a false one. It's hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge - federal, state and local agencies - might be cheating the system. But, all too often, that is exactly what happens.

New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cash operation: No matter what the stated humanitarian goals of the Clinton Foundation, every fiber and sinew of the organization is wrapped in self-dealing, self-enrichment, fraud, and corruption.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.