Quotes About Corruption

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

Things are done according to money these days.

In countries where the government and political environment is honest, generally you will find that the people are honest, law abiding and helpful. And the reverse is true too. In a corrupt environment, an honest person has a hard time, whereas in an honest environment, a corrupt person has a tough time.

Ein System war wirklich am Ende, wenn es nicht einmal seinen Kriminellen eine Zukunft bot.

Joe Biden's been pimping out his son for years.

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

swollen bowels burst and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of bystanders

For some of Europe's indebted clubs, match fixing is part of the business plan.

In the US, for instance, a former member of Congress will lobby Congress for whatever company or country will pay him; meanwhile in a poor country, a politician pockets an illegal bribe.

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

He charged me about £50 and in fifteen minutes I had a genuine Somali diplomatic passport, bearing my own name and photograph. No checks, no birth certificate, of course. I still have the passport, and it remains one of my strangest travel souvenirs.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.