Quotes About Corruption

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.