Quotes About Corruption

Let me make something clear: There are very few things Hollywood is right about. This is a very corrupt, elitist industry that breeds favoritism and fails people up the career ladder.

Karnataka was known for its good governance. After the BJP came to power, they laid the foundation for bad administration.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

I think that huge Christian institutions deal a lot with corruption. You see it happen with so many institutions. We've seen the questions with Catholicism, we've seen the questions with some other mega churches that really do exist.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don't have corrupt police. But there's a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that's definitely not the case.

For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

While the middle class is bled dry to meet various the expenditure of a bloated government machinery, every revenue collection agency is busy extorting money instead of ensuring compliance.

In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.

That Hillary Clinton can be president of the United States and a Saudi prince can donate $10 or $15 million dollars, let's say, to the Clinton Foundation and then have access for meetings and policy with the U.S. government, that is something that is very important to me.

Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.

For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor.

Breaking Big Money's Grip on America is a brilliant analysis of where we are and where we need to go. Read this book.

We no longer have a government of, by, and for the people—representative democracy. We have government by plutocracy—the rule of the rich for the rich by the rich," Moyers

Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by it and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.