Quotes About Corruption

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

The worst government is the most moral.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.