Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

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.

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.

Alex Gibney

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

Hypocracy defined: A modern form of government by hypocrisy.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Mikhail Saakashvili

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

James Thomson

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Jeff Miller

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Unfortunately, corruption seems to be part of our DNA.

fighting corruption and keeping the mob out of our union and their hands out of our pension funds.

When you find your heart secure, presumptuous and proud, then pour upon corruption more than grace: then look upon your grace without infirmities.

Howard Dean

There has been enough of fear, incompetence and corruption.

We thought this tape was such a vivid representation of corruption and was an opportunity for the people of Providence to witness such,

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.

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

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.