Quotes About Corruption

I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so corrupt is because everybody thinks it's honest, and it's not. You know the truth when you go to Chicago. The difference here in Los Angeles is you believe it's honest - and that's dangerous.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

You have to live. I cannot say you cut off your income and become corrupt.

Average Americans need to stop reading and watching the corrupt corporate media. They should immediately stop subscribing to them, stop advertising with them, and stop paying attention to them.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It's a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

I am fighting to stop the corruption in Washington that was created by Mitch McConnell.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Where we see corruption and can make a case against it, we're being aggressive.