Quotes About Corruption

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

India has a high level of corruption, a lethargic bureaucracy and is low on accountability. Investigations are long drawn and often aimless; those in power are rarely sacked for incompetence unless the media sets up a serious clamour for justice.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.