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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)