Quotes About Corruption

where annual elections end, tyranny begins.

They had in mind the usurpation of power by a single individual or group, or the circumvention of law by rulers for their own benefit.

The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what is right but have not the courage to stand against the moral corruption that is now attempting to undermine our republic.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

India needs honest bureaucrats; most officers in the system are corrupt.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

Every time they came to power, the Congress engaged in large scale corruption. Even when they were in power, they did nothing to stop the hoarding of black money in offshore havens.

So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Money has no moral opinions.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that. says Dorian. Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, says Lord Henry

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)