Corruption Quotes

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Ali Khamenei

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The corruption doesn't cease, the crime rates don't come down, no matter which party comes to power.

Pratyusha Banerjee

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Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Paul Wolfowitz

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Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

Thomas E. Mann

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One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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I think that huge Christian institutions deal a lot with corruption. You see it happen with so many institutions. We've seen the questions with Catholicism, we've seen the questions with some other mega churches that really do exist.

Lynn Whitfield

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It's true that robust governance structures, checks and balances, transparency of markets, directionally leads to... less vulnerability to corruption.

Khalid A. Al-Falih

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Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

James Surowiecki

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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

James L. Buckley

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If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

Eric Schneiderman

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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Eric Cantor

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If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Charles Spurgeon

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I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.

Alexei Navalny

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New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.

Alec Baldwin

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This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Jim Hightower

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New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local.

Wendy Long

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Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

Joe Biden

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Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

Newt Gingrich

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Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Andre Bazin

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The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.

Lee Kuan Yew

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Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

John Jay Hooker

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