Quotes About Corruption

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy. They did this with the best of intentions, but it led to disaster. And out of that disaster, the Assad regime rose to power.

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

After decades of systematic plundering of state property by corrupt oligarchs, the country needs a collective awakening.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

We must put an end to the corruption and systemic racism in our justice system, and that starts by electing progressive district attorneys who will fight for real justice across the country.

Evil things often look beautiful. But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good.... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.

Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Nothing corrupts a man so deeply as writing a book; the myriad temptations are overpowering. I wouldn't presume—

Son el revés del rey Midas, hay que ver el talento que tienen para convertir en mierda lo que tocan.

Hay gente tan corrupta que no se da cuenta de su propia corrupción

Politics was for those who had too much to eat.

Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.

The power of knowing the future could corrupt even the most noble heart. - Marcus Bennett