Elliott Colla Quotes

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Elliott Colla

• Corruption
• Regime
• Structures

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thought
  • Year
  • Corruption

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • House
  • Politics

• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Corruption

• In terms of competitiveness of new global environment, Kenya will have absolutely no choice but to tackle the most important constraint to its development: it has been corruption.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Corruption

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Roots
  • Corruption
  • Cut

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Find
  • Corruption

• Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Training
  • Beauty
  • Regime

• Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Corruption
  • Washington

• I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Country
  • Think
  • Independent

• The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Corruption
  • Secrecy
  • Wages

• What that dossier shows is that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime is not some historic leftover, but is real serious and represents a mounting challenge to the international community.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Real
  • Community
  • Challenge

• The report indicated that people of a high level of this Syrian regime were implicated.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • High
  • Report

• Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • World
  • True
  • Nature

• Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Corruption

• When you fight corruption, it fights back.

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Fight
  • Back
  • Corruption

• Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Baseball

• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Write
  • Coffee
  • I Believe

• I didn't get too many people out in that first one here last year.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Last Year

• The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Corruption
  • Regime
  • Structures