Quotes About Corruption

When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don't mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Our political leaders, our top generals, our military brass, our national security apparatus are grossly incompetent or, worse, corrupt.

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.

There is no merit in our political parties.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Big money is ruining the political system.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.

What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'