Quotes About Corruption

Contra el poder del dinero y la corrupción no podrá hacerse nada.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Politics is the art of enriching oneself, the art of robbery.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

It almost seemed as if Buchanan's regime was leasing the country's name, as his friends enriched themselves and presided over a machinery of government that was lubricated with bribery, brandy, and insider deals. In New York, a lawyer, George Templeton Strong, wrote in his diary that he felt like he was reliving "the Roman Empire in its day of rotting.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.

You can go on for days naming former elected officials who are now in the private sector getting paid lots of money for speeches.

People like Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, who have spent Rs 500 crore to build their brands, will take that money back from us only. How can they deliver good governance?

I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks