When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.
Manal al-Sharif
BusinessSpeakCorruptionInjustice
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
Jon Ossoff
WorkCorruptionHillYearsSawFive
When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.
Kamal Haasan
SupportStandCorruptionYouAgainst
Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver.
Denise Dresser
ChangeManagementBetterCorruption
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking
FutureCorruptionDoneKindPossible
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
Cory Booker
FailureGreatCorruptionYouLook
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
Felipe VI of Spain
RootsCorruptionCutHesitate
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Aravind Adiga
LiveMenPeopleCorruptionWorry
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
Dambisa Moyo
CriticismEndCorruptionHelpUp
There can be no compromise regarding corruption.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
CompromiseCorruptionRegarding
Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.
Pramila Jayapal
GoodPowerRichFamousCorruption
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Paul Theroux
CorruptionTalkingTelevisionTrain
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
PowerRoadCorruptionCountryNow
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
Mario Vargas Llosa
CorruptionAmericaCrueltyUniversity
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens
LifeLiveBestManBlameCorruption
In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
Kurt Bills
WomenMenStandCorruptionSpecial
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
James Surowiecki
BusinessCorruptionDoingAttention
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
James L. Buckley
AmbitionCorruptionFindingSystem
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
George Weah
GovernmentLawCorruptionBootsYou
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
Enrique Pena Nieto
CorruptionWantMexicoRoomLeast
We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.
Cyril Ramaphosa
MoneyCorruptionNeedOutBeingOur
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?
Charles Simeon
SoulManDriveCorruptionEnough
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.
Alexei Navalny
ThinkCorruptionPartyThievesVery
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
Alan Bullock
PeopleCorruptionWayBehaveInhuman
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