Quotes About Corruption

Antes sólo daba su coima el que quería conseguir algo ilícito. Vaya y pase. Ahora también da coima el que quería conseguir algo lícito. Y esto quiere decir relajo total.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

At the moment, world hunger and starvation have everything to do with politics. Political conflicts, insufficient responses to natural disasters, corrupt political institutions, and inequalities in income and education constitute what public health practitioners call the 'root' causes of hunger and malnutrition.

Innocence and guilt are legal concepts which have little relevance to the political world,

a new study by James Henry of the Tax Justice Network estimates that there is as much as 32 trillion dollars, which is over twice the entire US national debt, hidden away offshore not paying taxes, which makes for a very tempting target indeed.

you don't get laid or elected telling the truth.

Maybe when a man fights evil every day for so many years, he becomes evil. Maybe a man can't be around that much hate without hating. I fought the hate. The major … the hate consumed him.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

The pattern is sadly familiar in church history: a cooling of the church's love for Christ, then its replacement by a love for the things of the world, resulting in compromise and spiritual corruption, followed by a departure from the faith and loss of effective spiritual testimony.

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.

It's one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,

The power to execute invests a near absolute power in the state. As Robert Meeropol has suggested, the granting of such absolute power most surely tends to corrupt, and especially to corrupt democracy. Meeropol's own parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953 when he was six years old.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps . . . and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life

For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

We have the best government that money can buy.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic, " not blind.

That's easy, " Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.