Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Esar

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Goodluck Jonathan

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria

Because I don't think it's true, ... I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

We are waiting for the court ruling to see if he is implicated in corruption before the government makes its move,

The public view is that key players are protected due to corruption while justice is also obstructed.

Does corruption make it closer? I think it does. But Democrats still think this district is tough.

Corruption is not just a German issue, but an international one.

Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,

David Pelletier

Corruption in skating has been there for 100 years, and it still will be there. We just won't know about it.

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

If there is corruption in the system, we're going to find them. We're going to expose them and we will get rid of the perpetrators and we will fix these systems, that is a promise.

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

Ramsey Lewis

It's corruption from the inside. Not thievery or mischievousness, but falling prey to needing money quickly to pay the execs and shareholders.

It seems all he wants to talk about is corruption.

It is very encouraging that in Kuwait there is now more openness to talk about corruption. If we have a greater degree of transparency, this is the first step but it is not the only step that has to be taken.

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

Insider corruption explains its bewildering and unfair complexity, and it explains the excessive costs of the program.

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Josh Beckett

If you think about the result, it corrupts the process.

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Ayad Allawi

Before me, there was another prime minister. His name was Bremer. He ran this country, he had this ministry and a lot of the corruption started then. ... There was no auditing. Airplanes were flying in and the money was handed out in suitcases.

Peter Eigen

Germany is much more corrupt than previously thought. It's something we should be taking very seriously,

Paul Wolfowitz

The message is that there is no safe haven for looted funds or corrupt activities.

The issue of corruption is likely to play a very big role in the elections upcoming.

Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Stephen Harper

A culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption is not going to fix itself,

This corrupt deed by state legislators will energize voters to sign the http://www.VoteYesMarriage.com petition a month from now, to protect marriage rights for one man and one woman once and for all,

Think of what you see now in public corruption: kickbacks and wire fraud. This is a joke, except for the fact that these people are so hungry for her.

The system has been corrupted for a long time.

There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence

Dan Wilson

It reaffirms this notion that there is mismanagement and corruption rampant - even though that's not in fact the case.

John Wayne

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.