Quotes About Corruption

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

If Trump, for whatever reason, continues to coddle Russia, then Congress, the media, foundations, and academics should publicly detail the corruption that characterizes Putin's rule.

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Let them say what they say. The truth is, I did not engage in corruption.

The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination and NRA members will never - and I mean never - submit or surrender to the national media!

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

In the cruel game of politics, we are brought low by the child within each of us, until every howl is deafening in its abject stupidity, and none can hear the wails of the suffering

We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As