Corruption Quotes
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The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.
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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.'
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.
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I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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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.
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
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Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.
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There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo
