Quotes About Corruption

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

Two kinds of cops eat their gun: the corrupt ones and the ones who let the dead lay claim upon the quick.

He bore his friends no animus for their innocence, but he hated the Krupps and DuPonts of the world and the politicians who became teary-eyed and saccharine as they waved the flag and sent others to die in the wars they caused.

What Victor Charles and the NVA couldn't do to him, or the Mob or his enemies inside NOPD, Clete had done to himself with fried food, booze, weed, whites on the half shell, and calamitous affairs with strippers, junkies, and women who seemed to glow with both rut and neurosis.

James Lee Burke

A COINCIDENCE in a police investigation is like an honest man in politics.

It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

Unfortunately, the former rulers during the era of dictatorship indulged in massive corruption in Punjab, and the hard-earned money of the poor nation was mercilessly looted.

The distrust of the political system is unhealthy.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent.

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

I'm proud to have played a major part in destroying Fleet Street, a corrupt cartel of unions and proprietors that operated against the public interest.

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.

Despite repeated calls for reform from nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the court has become an ineffective, unaccountable and politically motivated bureaucracy. There are serious concerns about corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.