Quotes About Corruption

It is an old and bitter experience of the human race that when once a gulf-stream of a particular evil has got started, it is always being whipped forward by some new little breeze, or enlarged by some new little stream emptying itself into it. A magnetic power, it seems, in such a gulf-stream of evil, attracts these casual and accidental encouragements.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption.

If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

Evil is only good perverted.

The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.

The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.

Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

Those who misspent the government's money, they should be arrested and locked up.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

The biggest loser in 2016 was Washington, D.C.

All power corrupts, but we need electricity.

She is more than just a liar; she and her husband Bill are corrupt and known to be corrupt, going back to their Arkansas days. Just prior to leaving the White House, the Clintons pardoned a notorious fugitive who had fled the country to escape prosecution on racketeering and tax fraud. Pardons don't come free—the man's family and friends poured millions of dollars into the Clinton coffers in exchange.

Suddenly I had an epiphany: this system of larceny, corruption, and terror that I encountered firsthand in the confinement center is exactly the same system that has been adopted and perfected by modern progressivism and the Democratic Party. This

Yet when is the last time a major political party nominated someone who has been investigated for corruption so many times, and with an ongoing FBI inquiry? Nixon of course was impeached and resigned in disgrace, but there was no investigation and no impeachment prior to his 1972 reelection. Nixon up to that point had a spotless record, while Hillary's record could only be described as very, very spotty. Yet she has a whole team rooting for her.