Quotes About Corruption

And why not keep quiet? They're reaping a windfall. They have homes and cars, schools and health care, money for college. Why rock the boat? If the casino is doing a little dirty business with some gangsters, who cares? Speaking up might get you shot.

So to summarize the case so far, our target, Judge Claudia McDover, takes bribes from thugs, skims casino cash from the Indians, and somehow launders the money with the help of a very close friend who happens to be an estate lawyer.

John Grisham

We're getting flooded with tips about illegals sneaking into the country, and they're not coming here to wash dishes and lay concrete. They're organizing homegrown talent to wage jihad. Finding, monitoring, and stopping them has a far greater priority than the corruption that once got us excited.

How could the FBI, with a million agents and a billion dollars, decline to pursue such blatant corruption? A man has been killed, yet the "Fibbies" refused to investigate. He was flabbergasted, even angry.

It was amazing how much cordiality could be created, and how much suspicion could be overlooked, by truckloads of cash. They

My point is that I'm not sure I can find another judge so eager to be purchased.

It's far cheaper to pay bribes than to provide quality care.

West Virginia elects its judges, which is an abomination.

Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.

The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.

With a steady supply guaranteed, the judge really went off the deep end and things deteriorated. He couldn't do his job, couldn't sit on the bench for more than fifteen minutes without calling a recess for a quick snort. The lawyers were whispering but, as usual, didn't want to squeal. A court reporter was watching closely and knew the dirt.

You're willing to just sit by and push papers around your desk while this guy literally gets away with murder and keeps on killing.

It's a perfect storm for corruption. You start with people who are not that sophisticated, and suddenly they're raking in more profits than are imaginable. They attract all manner of crooks and con men who want to help.

He was ashamed of his greed and embarrassed by his stupidity. It was sickening what money had done to him.

And the story I can tell you involves more dirty cash than all the others combined. It also involves bribery, extortion, intimidation, rigged trials, at least two murders, and one wrongful conviction. There's a man rotting away on death row an hour from here who was framed. The man responsible for the crime is probably sitting on his boat right now, a boat much nicer than mine.

A true development, then, may be described as one which is conservative of the course of antecedent developments being really those antecedents and something besides them: it is an addition which illustrates, not obscures, corroborates, not corrects, the body of thought from which it proceeds; and this is its characteristic as contrasted with a corruption.

The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that conflict had been a lie. The Separatists had been this big enemy, and yet when the Empire was declared they'd melted away as if at the push of a button. The big corporations had staged the whole thing, Skelly was sure. Wars sold more ships, more weapons, and more medical devices. And in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods.

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—

At this time, too, many Mafia bosses were appointed to responsible positions in the administration simply because there was no one else.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.

the heavy load of debt incurred in the effort to obtain and retain control during the years of financial pillage and devastation.