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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

Albert Einstein

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

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.

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.

Alex Gibney

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

A. K. Antony

All my life I have fought corruption.

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.

The problems of rampant corruption, smuggling and crime, for example, are essentially due to weak and inadequate law enforcement. And deficient law enforcement is a manifestation of poor governance.

Jim Oberweis

We'll end this culture of corruption that has been so prevalent in this state.

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.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Because I don't think it's true, ... I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

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.

Unfortunately, corruption seems to be part of our DNA.