Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know what happened here wasn't right, and we are setting it right. Olympic corruption did not start here, but it must end here.

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.

Benjamin Tucker

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Jeff Lemire

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Jason Taylor

Let's not let these individuals with this devil mentality corrupt our city. For people who are scared to come forth, come forth. We shouldn't have to be afraid.

Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

Look, the muscle magazine thing was just stupid and he doesn't want to talk about his past womanizing. He's made a lot of mistakes, but corruption is not one of them.

Pankaj Mishra

Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Most police corruption is to look the other way, and to protect someone -- not to do jobs.

Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

I can't imagine too many voters rising in defense of the corrupt practices of the GOP House.

Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.

For seven years now, from Wall Street to public corruption to big drug companies, no one in this state has done more to stand up to special interests and the status quo than Eliot Spitzer.

Pat Robertson

Judge Greer is a corrupt judge. And that should not surprise anybody. People find out about corrupt judges all the time.

Kevin Rudd

What we would also need to have some guarantees about is the probity of the police force undertaking these tests themselves to make sure that they are free from corruption or any other maleficence.

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

John Fisher

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our goal is to get our school to stop investing money in a corrupt government that is participating in genocide.

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

I have been a victim of a corrupt government, ... You are guilty of murder.