Quotes About Corruption

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

I don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.