Quotes About Corruption

Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

The world maddens some, and brutifies others.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

Those who said they would do so only in return for a greased palm, got a little money.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

On the Day of Judgment no one is safe save the one who returns to God with a pure heart. (Quran) Surely in the breasts of humanity is a lump of flesh, if sound then the whole body is sound, and if corrupt then the whole body is corrupt. Is it not the heart? (Prophet Muhammad ) Blessed are the pure at heart, for they shall see God. (Jesus )

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Independent Authority against Corruption (IAAC], visited Korea and extended the Korea- Mongolia MOU on anti-corruption cooperation. In the extended MOU, both countries agreed to make more efforts for the implementation of the MOU

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Steering Committee for the Anti- Corruption of Vietnam (OSCAC) on February 3, 2010, and has since held joint workshops annually to share

Madame Politics is like Venus: they whom she decoys into her castle perish.

I am against government by crony.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

I was never more sure of anything. He's as innocent as you and I. So that's my word. You go out of here. Go find some honest cop, tell him what I've told you. Tell him to find Tino Gonsmart. Tell him that a guy named Alex Luxtro doesn't want the case reopened. If that doesn't scare him so bad he runs, then you got yourself the man." "Are

Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.

John Edward Acton in 1887. 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.