Famous Quotes & Sayings

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

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.

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.

Issa Rae

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

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.

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

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.

Carly Fiorina

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

Alex Gibney

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Virat Kohli

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Lapo Elkann

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Nancy Gibbs

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

Albert Einstein

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

A. K. Antony

All my life I have fought corruption.

The Democrats have been talking about the culture of corruption for some time. We don't have all the details yet, but these seem to be serious situations. Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials.

Dick Cheney

revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.

Albert Einstein

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

Stephen Harper

No one will ever be held responsible, not legally, not criminally, not politically, as long as this Liberal government is in power, ... A culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption is not going to fix itself.

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.

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,

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

William Shakespeare

I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

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.

Anthony Eden

Corruption never has been compulsory.

What we're trying to root out here is any tendency or any evidence where that type of corruption has seeped into the lower levels. Now we're getting down to the nooks and crannies.