Quotes About Corruption

The lesson here is that a U.S. Attorney with a vendetta and endless pockets of our tax dollars at work is far more terrifying than the devil himself.

Trump likewise had a keen feel for how the Republican Party had moved far to the right over the previous decade, with a formidable media infrastructure to broadcast right-wing messaging. Politics was polarized; Republicans were radicalized. From attacking Mexican immigrants to railing against a corrupt, biased media, Trump played directly into this modern reality.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a país overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergüencería as Santo Domingo was with heat, a cuco shod in iron, exhaling fumes, with the glittering promise of coin deep in the cold lightless shaft of its eyes.

Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon each other and the earth; we harvest lives in multitude. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Feeling not disgusted by corruption and evil, Nor eager grasping after desire and gain, Sacrificing not wisdom for the company of fools, Nor abandoning wonder to preserve the truth, Reaching the great Dao without excessiveness, Attaining the Buddha heart without vindictiveness, Keeping not to the path of mere normal holiness, Transcendent of its own creation.

The people turn out to be—well, people; a collective noun for all those individual men and women, none of them perfect, some of them downright vicious, most of them monumentally stupid. As stupid as the emperor, the great hereditary lords, the priestly hierarchs, the General Staff and the Lords of the Admiralty, the merchant princes and the organised crime barons.

The evil rising up from him; pouring off him in waves. It is like the foul stench of rotting meat, but it isn't just a scent. This runs soul deep. The hairs on my arms are standing on end just being this close to him.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.

In no civilised country is the head of the government immune from corruption investigation.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

We are going to combat corruption, and we are going to underscore the fact that we want the private investors to be a major part of our future economy.

We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Italian football lost credibility because of the match-fixing scandals - the best footballers didn't want to come.

Evil will destroy itself.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!