Quotes About Corruption

It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals or ports.

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

If 'Crazywala' is about the state of politics in our country, 'Nawab Basha' is about how money controls most of our lives.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.

You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

Our government is corrupt.

Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

Compared to Congress, BJP is spending huge money in the elections. BJP keeps claiming that it is not corrupt. Then where is it getting such huge monies from?