Quotes About Corruption

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

But the thing about 'Narcos' is that in the end, evil does not prevail. In the end, ambition destroys everything that you worked to build and it's not just in the show but in history.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Once the Congress party comes to power under Rahul Gandhi ji's leadership, we will enact a strong law to prevent horse-trading and defections.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we are going to officially combat corruption because we believe that this scourge, this illness, hinders our efforts to attract private investors.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

I am calling upon all of you to come out and fight corruption and agree to support the government in fighting corruption as our first priority.

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

Our prisons are very bad. When I was in Ikoyi prison, people were dying every day. They were carrying bodies out of the prison every day.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.