Quotes About Corruption

And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.

Under my rule, even ministers and MLAs of my party have been sent to jail when found indulging in corruption and criminal activities, whereas in previous regimes no action was taken against any influential person.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I'm going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is.

The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

No one involved in corruption will be spared, no matter who they are, I assure you. Whether a minister, a prince, or anyone. Anyone who is guilty of corruption will be held accountable.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does a very good job of describing that corruption, it is failing to bring it into a bigger focus. To explain what it is all about.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.