Quotes About Corruption

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

The famous ones kept going, video, photos, headlines, and here they still are, running countries, pressing buttons, standing in offices insisting that all the money in the world belongs to them, pushing secrets through votes, starving the bottom so the top can feast

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

Le dijo a Nariño que Colombia era un campo militar[6] y no una sociedad funcional. Mientras peleaba en solitario contra los abusos del gobierno, había visto cuan sobornables y corruptos podían ser los políticos y cuan incapaz había sido de controlarlos.

En Bolívar veía al único líder que podía librar a la nación de la nauseabunda corrupción política, la insurgencia armada y la rampante ignorancia que la corroían[

any era that is dominated by the love of money only, has a rotten core within it and must perish

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.

There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

There's issue of a corrupt campaign finance system, where big money interests and Wall Street are trying to buy elections.Those are the issues that are resonating.

Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

No, it's the same people who are always in power, Vera. Sometimes they call themselves communists, sometimes capitalists, sometimes devoutly religious—whatever they need to be to hang on to power. The former communists in Russia are the same people who own all the industries now. They're the real rip-off merchants. But the professional middle classes, people like Valentina's husband, have been hardest hit.

En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.