Quotes About Corruption

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

I started stuffing wads of cash into my socks and underwear and quietly passed by the T.S.A. agents with a grin on my face and a sigh of relief.

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.

The rules seem rigged to protect government lawlessness, and the playing field is uneven.

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Evil is of the devil.

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.

Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both.Knowledge holds the truth.

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.