Quotes About Corruption

When one donor can account for more than 70 percent of a candidate's money, there's obviously something wrong with the system.

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

We are against crony capitalism.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

Why should DMK align with Congress after blaming the Congress of taking revenge on it for the 2G scam, which caused the exchequer a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Why should Congress take revenge? Does that mean the Congress did not get its due share from the DMK?

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

If we go back to the birth of 'Superman' and 'Batman' in America in the '30s, they were created because of events like the Great Depression, crime and Al Capone, among others. Everybody was corrupt back then, and if you can't have a hero in real life, it helps to have one in your fantasies.

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

When I used to fight against the corrupt system, my wife ran the house and my mother supported me.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.

I won't call it UMNO anymore; this is Najib's party. I feel embarrassed that I am associated with a party that is seen as supporting corruption - it had caused me to feel ashamed.

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

Research who your politicians are, even; know what they do, know who they're supported by legislatively, and know who is supporting them financially for their campaigns. Because ever since Citizens United, we've seen a massive growth in the amount of campaign contributions and corruption in politics as a result, and that has to change.

The people are going to be able to judge for themselves who is supporting corruption and who is against it.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.