Quotes About Corruption

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

I like Arvind Kejriwal and his work that he is doing for India, but I don't know why he is after Congress party and Gandhi family, why can't he see other leaders and parties which are also involved in corruption.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

We have focused on the buyers of influence (those outside special interests), but paid little heed to the sellers of influence—bureaucrats and politicians.

Mark Hanna, who served as President William McKinley's chief fund-raiser. (Hanna once famously said, "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.")

FBI investigations alone will never take corruption out of politics. They take too much effort, and they attack the problem serially, one target at a time.

The assumption is that we need to protect politicians from outside influences. But how about protecting ourselves from the politicians?

In his first eight years on the global lecture circuit, Bill had never been paid to speak in Nigeria. But once Hillary was appointed secretary of state, he booked two of his top three highest-paid speeches ever by traveling to Nigeria, pulling in a whopping $700,000 each.69

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years.

In short, this is corruption by proxy. It is essentially a form of "political arbitrage," where friends and family members of powerful political figures have positioned themselves to serve as conduits or middle men between those seeking influence and those who possess political power.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

This council was called the boule and it was scarcely less cumbersome, consisting of 500 citizens, not elected but chosen by ballot, the point being that in this way it never developed a corporate identity which might have corrupted and distorted the business of the Assembly.

Lo Stato greco è l'unica mafia al mondo che è riuscita a fare bancarotta. Tutte le altre si sviluppano e prosperano.

En este país, los que intentan triunfar sin enchufes ni contactos son asesinos en potencia

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

The administration of the country appeared to me then – as it does now – as a sorry and sordid play, in which the politicians are the actors, the Pressmen are the dramatists, vested interests pack the house, and – the public pay the price!

This was very much Billing territory. He picked up on the literary, journalistic and political notions of the radical right: proposals for Jewish ghettoes and yellow star badges; anti-German and anti-alien strictures; moves against the sale of honours and internal corruption; and, crucially, took them to the masses.

Smallwood the Coalition candidate was returned; and the Imperialist of 27 October offered a £500 reward 'to any person furnishing evidence to support a successful petition under "The Corrupt Practices Act

The court is resplendent; Yet the fields are overgrown. The granaries are empty; Yet some wear elegant clothes; Fine swords dangle at their sides; They are stuffed with food and drink; And possess wealth in gross abundance. This is known as taking pride in robbery. Far is this from the Way!

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.