Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
George Ayittey
WorldProblemsCorruptionLeaving
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.
Matt Taibbi
ConstructionCorruptionWayBeen
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
Eduard Shevardnadze
CorruptionEnoughCountrySustain
Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.
Amy Jo Martin
TimeControlStoryCorruptionWant
Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption.
Yemi Osinbajo
TimeFightPeopleCorruptionLong
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
CorruptionEnemyTrueDevelopment
If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
Uday Kotak
ProcessCorruptionIndiaMarathonUp
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
Roger B. Taney
FearPowerMoneyCorruptionOpen
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
Rahman Baba
LifeGoodLiveWorldCorruptionGet
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
CorruptionPovertyAttentionCancer
I knew I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, and I knew that I needed to document that corruption; otherwise, people would not take it seriously.
Omarosa Manigault Newman
OpportunityPeopleCorruptionHouse
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
Jay Inslee
I AmMeProcessCorruptionI Can
I won't call it UMNO anymore; this is Najib's party. I feel embarrassed that I am associated with a party that is seen as supporting corruption - it had caused me to feel ashamed.
Mahathir Mohamad
I AmMeFeelCorruptionPartySeen
Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.
Dinesh D'Souza
EducationHistoryLearnCorruption
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
Kapil Sibal
EndCorruptionIncidentsReduced
Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.
Chris Gibson
EnergyHurtPotentialCorruption
Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.
Haider al-Abadi
CorruptionSometimesWantYears
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
Claire Denis
ManStrongEndCorruptionTragedy
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
Carl Paladino
GovernmentAngryPeopleCorruption
Corruption never has been compulsory.
Anthony Eden
CorruptionNeverBeenCompulsory
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Ed Koch
LifeNew YorkCityLawCorruption
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney
PowerCorruptionLibertyVirtueVice
The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.
Prodigy
TreeGovernmentCorruptionConnected
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.
Pauline Marois
CorruptionLostKnowCrimeOrganized
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