Quotes About Corruption

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

We will not join hands with the Congress in any circumstance, because they are corrupt.

stole the bank's money. You big fat cheater.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.

But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.

Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

But the simple availability of information about corruption tends not to produce genuine accountability because the politically active part of the population are members of clientelistic networks.

Many believed that the Mafia, clientelism, and corruption represented traditional social practices that would gradually erode as the country modernized economically.

But the impact of national identity on state strength is not limited to its coercive power. Much of what passes for corruption is not simply a matter of greed but rather the by-product of legislators or public officials who feel more obligated to family, tribe, region, or ethnic group than to the national community and therefore divert money in that direction.

These groups began agitating against corruption through reports and publicity about the backgrounds of candidates published in sympathetic newspapers; they sought to professionalize government by making it nonpartisan. Ironically, while this group spoke in the name of democracy, it actually represented the upper crust of Chicago society, an overwhelmingly Protestant group that looked down on the way that Lorimer was empowering the city's new Catholic and Jewish immigrants.

Much of what passes for corruption is not simply a matter of greed but rather the by-product of legislators or public officials who feel more obligated to family, tribe, region, or ethnic group than to the national community and therefore divert money in that direction.

highly corrupt governments usually have big problems in delivering services, enforcing laws, and representing the public interest.

In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab.

Does a 'greased palm' offer a 'slippery shake'?

Sale de la guerra, la paz; de la paz, la abundancia; de la abundancia, el ocio; del ocio, el vicio; del vicio, la guerra

El centro de la telaraña, según nos van a revelar los estudios de caso más adelante, eran las relaciones personales, privadas, del jefe del grupo o responsable del país con los más altos niveles del Estado y los partidos, y también, en el caso del jefe de proyectos, con los niveles medios y bajos de la red.

Odebrecht, se organizó como parte de la corporación, aunque manteniendo oculto el hecho de que recurría a mecanismos no solo informales sino abiertamente ilegales.

Los acuerdos del gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto con los principales cárteles de la droga en México ya no pueden permanecer escondidos ni tras bambalinas. Son acuerdos que incluyen la repartición del territorio y su respectivo dominio para el trasiego de droga. Dentro de esos acuerdos seguramente

La corrupción política es el padre y la madre de la expansión de la violencia organizada en México»

en México «hay un pacto de impunidad tácito entre los políticos». Los políticos no investigan a otros políticos;

In one case I heard that the censor, in a city in Tamaulipas state, was a local journalist employed by a cartel who sat at a desk in a newspaper office making the final decisions about what that paper could publish and what it couldn't.

Para combatir la ilegalidad generalizada, México necesita políticos comprometidos con la ley. Por desgracia, ahora tiene un presidente que ha defendido públicamente el asesinato y la violación como usos legítimos de la fuerza.