Quotes About Corruption

When the president says that the biggest problem of the country is corruption, they attack the morality of the president so that he doesn't speak about corruption.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

were now not only affluent themselves but were also able to help family members-hut only so long as they stayed in office.'-

The over-riding quest for re-election is at the heart of the corruption of public officials who betray the public trust in order to get the money needed to pay for their political campaigns. It is hard to see how that corruption can be ended, except by ending re-elections with a limit of one term and a ban on running for another office for several years.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

Your Empire is corrupt, Commander. Corrupt, dangerous, and ultimately self-defeating. It's going to fall anyway. I'm just helping it along.

they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)

THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC WILL ENDURE UNTIL THE DAY CONGRESS DISCOVERS THAT IT CAN BRIBE THE PUBLIC WITH THE PUBLIC'S MONEY—ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

It's easier to robe the poor.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

anyone with a secretary knows that what Catullus really wrote was already corrupt by the time it was copied twice...

How would you define the word 'populist'? I think that a populist might claim to unify the will of the people by insulting established politicians who have become increasingly corrupt. Quote Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson, Martin Hickman Rupert Murdoch was not running a normal business, but a shadow state … it is still there and Rupert Murdoch is still in charge.

Enron, Halliburton, and WorldCom.

The predictable effect of such a system was to encourage not just stagnation and inefficiency but a permanent cycle of corruption. It is one of the paradoxes of the Socialist project that the absence of property tends to generate more corruption, not less.

Like large-scale state projects elsewhere, the Cassa was inefficient, and more than a little corrupt. Most of its benefits went to the favored coastal regions; much of the new industry that it brought in was capital-intensive and thus created few jobs.

Silvio Berlusconi, who entered politics not so much to further the national house-cleaning as to ensure that his own business dealings remained safely unaffected.

There is a widespread sense that since 'they' will do what they want in any case—while feathering their own nests—why should 'we' waste time trying to influence the outcome of their actions.

When the police become criminals, slavery can take root.