Corruption Quotes
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.] (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt. (Quote by - Larry Sabato)
While severely cracking down upon an extremely few corrupt elements, we should focus on education and prevention of corruption regarding the vast majority of CPC functionaries. (Quote by - Wu Guanzheng)
I know that money corrupts. I would rather have a clean government than one where "First Amendment rights are being respected," that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government. (Quote by - John McCain)
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (Quote by - David Brin)
The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jurors do not have to unanimously agree on one corrupt persuader .. acted knowingly and with corrupt intent. (Quote by - Arthur Andersen)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: / But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: / For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Quote by - Bible)
Bob Ney is the poster child of linking Ohio's culture of corruption to Washington's culture of corruption. In many ways, Ohio's problems have been brought into Washington now. (Quote by - Brian Rothenberg)
Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance. (Quote by - George Marek)
They will recover their costs because the record reveals corrupt individuals within a corrupt agency with corrupt influences on it, bringing this litigation, .. This is the final stage in a suit that should have never happened. (Quote by - Lynn Hughes)
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. (Quote by - William Gaddis)
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. (Quote by - Richard J. Needham)
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow. (Quote by - Anurag Kashyap)
Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone. (Quote by - Melanie Sloan)
Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy. (Quote by - George Marek)
Behind terrorism and cyber-crime, we are very, very dedicated to fighting public corruption at every level. And to that end, we are covering every lead that is brought to us. And we would very much invite the public's assistance in this and any other public corruption cases. (Quote by - Deborah Madden)
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Quote by - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton)
I think that we have to begin a process of removing the stain of corruption from Louisiana, and I think that, in this case, we have confronted corruption squarely in the face and we have dealt with it appropriately and fairly,. (Quote by - Eddie Jordan)
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. (Quote by - Edmund Wilson)
I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out. (Quote by - Gary Gilbert)
They range from fines to possible imprisonment and if the police decide that its a corrupt act and not just an illegal act.. then whoever was found to have carried out a corrupt act would not be allowed to vote and therefore would not be allowed to stand as a candidate. (Quote by - Dr Helena Catt)
I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst. (Quote by - Owen Felltham)
Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved. (Quote by - Ahmed Qorei)
The Israeli public expressed dissatisfaction with the political system in every way possible. We had no really charismatic leaders, there were a number of corruption affairs and some ways of behavior just on the edge of corruption. (Quote by - Abraham Diskin)
For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (Quote by - Bible)
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,. (Quote by - Iyad Allawi)
Acting in evil and corruption, people are immersed in corruption. Without the Name, they find no place of rest. In the City of Death, they suffer in agony. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption. (Quote by - Daniel Kaufmann)
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. (Quote by - Paul Ryan)
It certainly suggests a kind of corruption, not the kind of corruption that can be prosecuted under the bribery law but the kind that shows a manipulation of system,. (Quote by - Kathleen Clark)
This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. .. This was a team effort. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions. (Quote by - Joseph Muscat)
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Good power flourishes, bad power corrupts. (Quote by - Timothy John Waterhouse)
Once upon a time there was a party calling itself the PN that declared total war on corruption and promised to eradicate corruption once and for all. But that was in another century and in another country. It was then also a different party. (Quote by - Evarist Bartolo)
There was clearly corruption in the city. But there's corruption in every city. If you look at the people that Bill Campbell brought in, he had no reason to suspect the corruption. (Quote by - Jerry Froelich)
We just assume politics is corrupt and a little bit of corruption is the cost of doing business. (Quote by - Kent Redfield)
Many trust him. Unfortunately corruption is that way. We don't know what's happening. Important thing is corruption must be fought. (Quote by - Alberto Fujimori)
So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima. (Quote by - Samuel Purchas)
No one should get into politics, it will corrupt the mind, wither the body, and destroy the soul. (Quote by - Cory Matthew Falls)
'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism. (Quote by - Christian Williams)
It's clear that there is a highly corrupt relationship between some journalists and those in positions of power, .. This indictment shows the corrupt nature of the press system and its linkage to power. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
Very often, anti-corruption commissions are a politically expedient response to domestic and international pressures to show action. The focus that there has been on creating anti-corruption commissions to respond to pressures to do something about corruption has not generally been successful. (Quote by - Daniel Kaufman)
There's a lot of corruption over here within the Afghan police. Some, quite frankly, are corrupt, and others are trying to do a good job, do the best they can. And you'll find that a lot of them even in leadership positions, they still can't read and write. (Quote by - David Lentz)
I don't know of a single witness in this so-called corruption trial that's going to say there was a corrupt payment to George Ryan. No one got cheated out of anything. The contracts were good deals, fair deals, for the secretary of state's office. (Quote by - Dan K. Webb)
Only by augmenting bilateral, multilateral as well as regional and international co-operation and setting up an anti-corruption mechanism can an effective fight against corruption be possible. (Quote by - Li Yufu)
Corruption is simply crime without conscience. (Quote by - George Marek)
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. .. So what's left? We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country. (Quote by - Joseph Estrada)
The results of the index are sometimes unjust because they show up countries which are fighting against corruption at this moment, .. Valiant efforts are being made by President Olusegun Obasanjo to promote large-scale changes in a country have been robbed by the grand corruption of their past leaders. (Quote by - Peter Eigen)
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. (Quote by - Bible)
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me. (Quote by - Malcolm Muggeridge)
I am disheartened that the Republicans and my opponent Joe Davis were not interested in working in a bipartisan manner to root out this example of political corruption, .. We can ill afford a supervisor who ignores the seeds of corruption, does not stand up for the unsuspecting citizens whose rights were violated, declines to make the difficult choices and once again opts for the path of least resistance. (Quote by - Patricia Myers)
The phrase 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' only exists to discourage good people from getting in positions where they can positively affect the world. (Quote by - Nick Kinsella)
It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable. (Quote by - David Brin - The Postman)
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
When one pauses to consider how thoroughly corrupted our censors must be by this time, it is difficult to have any faith whatever in their judgement of what is and is not corrupting to others. If to the pure all things are pure, it may well follow that to the corrupted all things are corrupt. (Quote by - Judith Wright)
When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace. (Quote by - John Gay)
My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people. (Quote by - Jakaya Kikwete)
The frequent transgressions in China's financial sector have brought great losses to the country, the society and financial institutions, .. We should study how corruption takes place, find out the reasons of the corrupt cases, and root out the conditions for corruption to grow and spread. (Quote by - Wu Guanzheng)
Rep. DeLay doesn't want the people of Houston to know what he's up to with corrupt lobbyists in Washington. There should be no place in Congress for the corrupt pay-to-play politics of Tom DeLay and Bob Ney. No more lip service. Congress must address real reforms that drain the money swamp of Washington. (Quote by - David Donnelly)
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
She didn't want him associated with that. He was somebody who had been a legislator for 30 years, and had accumulated that much power. They say power corrupts, but it didn't corrupt him. (Quote by - Laurence Glasco)
Nobody can remember a greater investment of resources devoted to public corruption, nor can they remember this level of investigative activity in our public corruption cases. (Quote by - Chris Swecker)
Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder. (Quote by - Howard Dean)
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. - Theodore Roosevelt, (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
In the corruption of the three qualities, there is blindness; in attachment to Maya, there is darkness. The greedy people serve others, instead of the Lord, although they loudly announce their reading of scriptures. They are burnt to death by their own corruption; they are not at home, on either this shore or the one beyond. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts.. perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
We do not intend to bust the big fish only as we are also required to establish a system to prevent corruption. We believe that a correct and clean system may significantly reduce the level of corruption in this country. (Quote by - Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas)
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. (Quote by - William Cowper)
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt. (Quote by - Persian Proverb)
And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. (Quote by - Saul Alinsky)
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty. (Quote by - Peter Eigen)
Education, and to address poverty. Most especially because of the corruption, no to corruption -- at least, to start because it has been a system and it's affecting the entire country,. (Quote by - Fernando Poe Jr.)
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I think what you're really talking about when you look at junior Hoffa .. is the weakness and corruption of the past, things that have caused this union so much pain .. Four general presidents were indicted. We've attacked corruption. We've dealt it a body blow. We've put over 67 locals into trusteeship. (Quote by - Ron Carey)
The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life. (Quote by - Edward Hennessey)
There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption. (Quote by - Harry Reid)
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots. (Quote by - George Weah)
