Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

John Fisher

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our goal is to get our school to stop investing money in a corrupt government that is participating in genocide.

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

What we're trying to root out here is any tendency or any evidence where that type of corruption has seeped into the lower levels. Now we're getting down to the nooks and crannies.

Anthony Eden

Corruption never has been compulsory.

If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Issa Rae

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!

Jason Taylor

Let's not let these individuals with this devil mentality corrupt our city. For people who are scared to come forth, come forth. We shouldn't have to be afraid.

Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

Look, the muscle magazine thing was just stupid and he doesn't want to talk about his past womanizing. He's made a lot of mistakes, but corruption is not one of them.

Stephen Harper

No one will ever be held responsible, not legally, not criminally, not politically, as long as this Liberal government is in power, ... A culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption is not going to fix itself.

Most police corruption is to look the other way, and to protect someone -- not to do jobs.

Dick Cheney

revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.

Pankaj Mishra

Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

Jeff Lemire

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

We know what happened here wasn't right, and we are setting it right. Olympic corruption did not start here, but it must end here.

Cherie Blair

Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

While severely cracking down upon an extremely few corrupt elements, we should focus on education and prevention of corruption regarding the vast majority of CPC functionaries.

Any time you have a corruption story that touches you in any way, it has an impact on your campaign.

Exhibit A in their 'culture of corruption' is Tom DeLay.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

Patrick Manning

created a criminal elite with considerable financial resources with which they corrupt public institutions and officials.

Tim Phillips

That's the culture of corruption -- when you can get money anonymously and there's no accountability.

Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars

It's not what corruption costs in terms of bribes paid or money taken out of the country. It is really the opportunity cost that hurts the country the most in terms of lost infrastructure and investment. Many of our clients, major international companies, just won't come into the country because they do not trust the rules of the game. That's the real cost. Some people have just written the place off.

This is interesting. Usually corruption doesn't even come up in polls.

Jon Corzine

That is laid out in my comprehensive anti-corruption proposal.

The government tends to see evil where there is good, corrupt intent where there's none.