Quotes About Corruption

Yet an IDB auditor, Mariela Antiga, complained that the contracts were padded with "excessive costs" to build roads "no one needed." Antiga also alleged that IDB funds were going to a construction project on private land owned by former Haitian president Rene Preval—a Clinton buddy—and several of his cronies. For her efforts to expose corruption, Antiga was promptly instructed by the IDB to pack her bags and leave Haiti.6

By 2008, the entire banking and home mortgage lending industry had been corrupted by the left. It was hardly a commercial industry anymore; rather, it was a kind of progressive racket. And the racket came to an end when, first by the thousands, and eventually by the millions, the people who lacked the ability to pay back their loans stopped making their loan payments. This caused the panic of 2008, followed by the crash of 2008.

socialism is the ideology of thieves and

Have you ever seen so many people, she whispered, gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?

The golden age is early infancy. Soon after this the corruption of the erotic instinct takes place. In a very short time everything falls apart. The solidarity of opposites is completely shattered. Before you've learned to put two words together, you are mired in an existence full of essential dichotomies.

They read denunciations, certificates, cases. They hurriedly signed sentences. They yawned. They drank wine. [ . . . ] At night they chased barefooted, naked people Over ice-covered stones Against a northeast wind Into wastelands outside town. [ . . . ] They threw them, not all killed yet, into a pit. They hurriedly covered them with earth.

Drain the swamp

Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?

Cicero's Against Verres and its denunciation of a corrupt official, Brunetti's

If criminals can't believe in an illegal deal with the police, what can they believe in?

Conocer la perfección inconmensurable de Dios y nuestra inmensa imperfección, ver nuestras propias faltas e inconmensurable corrupción, es el A-B-C de una fe salvadora.

Cada nuevo acto de pecado disminuye el temor y el remordimiento, endurece nuestro corazón, insensibiliza nuestra conciencia e incrementa nuestras inclinaciones perversas.

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

He that wishes to attain right views about Christian holiness must begin by examining the vast and solemn subject of sin. He must dig down very low if he would build high. A mistake here is most mischievous. Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

You show me a member of Congress who's part of the appropriations process and I'll show you a wife, child, or brother-in-law with a company that benefits from federal dollars.

Politicians and their relatives provide ample fodder as well, with elected officials who enter politics making between one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year, yet somehow amass wealth in the tens of millions over their tenure in government; aside from being humble public servants, apparently they are also astute investors. Politics is big business. Is

Ismail had read of similar actions by the family of an American vice president; corruption and greed were not ailments relegated solely to the jungles of the developing world.

They hardly noticed when a former president received $500,000 for a 2010 speech at the Renaissance Capital Bank in Moscow when his wife was serving as secretary of state.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

What does it take for a DNC delegate to retreat from the party of her childhood and embrace the pussy-grabber, Donald Trump? For Sarah, it took a firsthand glimpse at the corruption and dishonesty of Hillary Clinton and the DNC war machine.