For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
Bruce Springsteen
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This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
Newt Gingrich
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We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.
John Fleming
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What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.
Lee Hsien Loong
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I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
Katherine Boo
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
Matt Taibbi
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai Stevenson I
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Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the society around them, but that only makes it more important to protect them and keep them whole and pure.
Michael Frome
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As you fight corruption, it fights back.
Yemi Osinbajo
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Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.
Stanley A. McChrystal
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Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
Ted Cruz
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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
Robert Fisk
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The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'
Said Nursi
WorkLiveMeSayingCorruptionDie
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
Michele Bachmann
MoneyPoliticalCorruptionYouPay
The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
MomentMeCorruptionHouseWhite
Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.
Juan Manuel Santos
PrioritiesCorruptionHighAgenda
Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
Najib Razak
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There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'
Jon Anderson
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If my idol Mahatma Gandhi could fight to eradicate corruption at the age of 78, why can't I try at 60?
Kamal Haasan
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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
Deepak Chopra
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.
Conrad Black
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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
Carl Honore
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