Famous Quotes & Sayings

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.

The problems of rampant corruption, smuggling and crime, for example, are essentially due to weak and inadequate law enforcement. And deficient law enforcement is a manifestation of poor governance.

W. S. Gilbert

I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out.

Jim Oberweis

We'll end this culture of corruption that has been so prevalent in this state.

Those who are found to be corrupt must face the full force of the law.

I have been a victim of a corrupt government, ... You are guilty of murder.

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

Kevin Rudd

What we would also need to have some guarantees about is the probity of the police force undertaking these tests themselves to make sure that they are free from corruption or any other maleficence.

Pat Robertson

Judge Greer is a corrupt judge. And that should not surprise anybody. People find out about corrupt judges all the time.

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

I can't imagine too many voters rising in defense of the corrupt practices of the GOP House.

Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.

Benjamin Tucker

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Nancy Gibbs

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Albert Einstein

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Alex Gibney

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Virat Kohli

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

A. K. Antony

All my life I have fought corruption.

The Democrats have been talking about the culture of corruption for some time. We don't have all the details yet, but these seem to be serious situations. Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials.

Carly Fiorina

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

Lapo Elkann

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.