Famous Quotes & Sayings

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

The system has been corrupted for a long time.

The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.

As long as this corrupt regime fails to leave the scene, we will stick together.

This was long overdue. The public has been demanding that all those involved in corruption must resign and face the law, but it has taken the individuals involved and the government a lot of time to come to terms to the demands.

Stephen Harper

What really needs to happen is this culture of waste and mismanagement and corruption that the Liberal Party practices must end,

We want to move from a culture of corruption to reform. It's time to get serious and give the public the government they deserve.

The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted

The public view is that key players are protected due to corruption while justice is also obstructed.

Paul Wolfowitz

The message is that there is no safe haven for looted funds or corrupt activities.

The issue of corruption is likely to play a very big role in the elections upcoming.

Patrick Manning

created a criminal elite with considerable financial resources with which they corrupt public institutions and officials.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life

This is interesting. Usually corruption doesn't even come up in polls.

Dan Wilson

It reaffirms this notion that there is mismanagement and corruption rampant - even though that's not in fact the case.

Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars

Tim Phillips

That's the culture of corruption -- when you can get money anonymously and there's no accountability.

Jon Corzine

That is laid out in my comprehensive anti-corruption proposal.

Ramsey Lewis

It's corruption from the inside. Not thievery or mischievousness, but falling prey to needing money quickly to pay the execs and shareholders.

It seems all he wants to talk about is corruption.

There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence

Nick Lampson

If you put the work that I have done and the support that I've been given ... to the legacy of theft, corruption and neglect that Tom DeLay seems to have earned for himself, I think he saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was something he couldn't win, and made the decision to get out.

In the last couple years, federal investigations on public corruption laws are sometimes how these things are discovered.

Insider corruption explains its bewildering and unfair complexity, and it explains the excessive costs of the program.

Josh Beckett

If you think about the result, it corrupts the process.

If you vote ANC, you get failed delivery and corruption. Voting for a third party is the same as voting ANC. And if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.

Ha-Joon Chang

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

Jay Leno

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

Evan Esar

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Ayad Allawi

Before me, there was another prime minister. His name was Bremer. He ran this country, he had this ministry and a lot of the corruption started then. ... There was no auditing. Airplanes were flying in and the money was handed out in suitcases.

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

If there is corruption in the system, we're going to find them. We're going to expose them and we will get rid of the perpetrators and we will fix these systems, that is a promise.

It is very encouraging that in Kuwait there is now more openness to talk about corruption. If we have a greater degree of transparency, this is the first step but it is not the only step that has to be taken.