Quotes About Corruption

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God.

The Teapot Dome scandal seemed to epitomize the administration of the president at the time, Warren G. Harding, although Harding himself was not implicated in that particular scandal.

During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot.

I wish I could build you a cage, little bird, or a beautiful tower, to keep you safe from the corrupt, cynical world. You don't know how precious it is to be naive and innocent. I only want to protect you, so you can sing and be free like the golden bird you were born to be.

Drugs," Estelle said. "Money and drugs, and that's the history of civilization.

Socrates was the best teacher and they killed him!

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

VIII A second dark spot, also growing darker, is the growing criminality of the political class. As

These three conceptual and ideological challenges (Hindu fundamentalism, Communist dictatorship and ethnic separatism) all date to the founding of the nation. To these have, more recently been added, three more mundane and materialist challenges. These are inequality, corruption and environmental degradation.

Eighteen applications were received for a licence to make small cars; only that of the prime minister's son was approved, despite his having no past experience in this regard.

The Congress chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal, gave Sanjay's Maruti car company 300 acres of land at a giveaway price.

The history of the twentieth century, he pointed out, is replete with instances of the tragedy that overtakes democracy when a leader who has risen to power on the crest of a popular wave or with the support of a democratic organisation becomes a victim of political narcissism and is egged on by a coterie of unscrupulous sycophants who use corruption and terror to silence opposition and attempt to make public opinion an echo of authority.

The Good thing about Money is that it can buy just anything. The bad thing about it is that it can buy 'YOU' too!