Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

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.

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.

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.

Exhibit A in their 'culture of corruption' is Tom DeLay.

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

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

Any time you have a corruption story that touches you in any way, it has an impact on your campaign.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Does corruption make it closer? I think it does. But Democrats still think this district is tough.

Corruption is not just a German issue, but an international one.

Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,

David Pelletier

Corruption in skating has been there for 100 years, and it still will be there. We just won't know about it.

We are waiting for the court ruling to see if he is implicated in corruption before the government makes its move,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's not what corruption costs in terms of bribes paid or money taken out of the country. It is really the opportunity cost that hurts the country the most in terms of lost infrastructure and investment. Many of our clients, major international companies, just won't come into the country because they do not trust the rules of the game. That's the real cost. Some people have just written the place off.

Evan Esar

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

Goodluck Jonathan

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria

Edward Kennedy

another sign of the culture of corruption that pervades the White House and Republican leadership.