Corruption Quotes

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

John Jay Hooker

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Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

Ahmed Zewail

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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Anna Lindh

SocietyCorruptionOppressionCommon

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

Benigno Aquino III

PeopleEndCorruptionPovertyOffice

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

CorruptionThingsGreeceLike

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Wangari Maathai

CorruptionYouBadSoilBecomeSaw

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

LegalCorruptionYouCaptureNever

The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.

Sally Yates

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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

TodayGovernmentCorruptionDoneWay

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

P. Chidambaram

GovernmentCorruptionTestYourSole

No one involved in corruption will be spared, no matter who they are, I assure you. Whether a minister, a prince, or anyone. Anyone who is guilty of corruption will be held accountable.

Mohammad bin Salman

CorruptionYouGuiltyWillMatter

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Olusegun Obasanjo

WorldCorruptionWhereAbsolutely

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

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They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Denis Kearney

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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Imran Khan

ThinkCorruptionProblemBigSolving

One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.

Chiranjeevi

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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

Hamza Yusuf

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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

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All my life I have fought corruption.

A. K. Antony

LifeCorruptionMy LifeFought

Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

Asif Kapadia

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I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.

Piyush Goyal

PowerBelieveProcessCorruption

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

Peter Hook

PowerJoyCorruptionNewMovement

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.

Scott Peters

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