Corruption Quotes
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We have two wars - a war with Russia, and a war against corruption within the country, which is a threat, above all, to the economy of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky
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Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.
Celestine Sibley
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Barack Obama has made things exponentially worse, but let's face it, when Republicans had total control over it, they didn't do what they said they were gonna do. I think also people got fatigued with the war. And the party got into a whole bunch of corruption and personal scandals that weren't compatible with the principles it claimed to stand for.
Tim Pawlenty
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Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.
George Richard Marek
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We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.
George Richard Marek
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Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.
Warren Murphy
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I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
Vladimir Putin
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: those who are intellectually blind; those who are blinded by ethnicity; those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.
Wole Soyinka
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All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.
Ger Duany
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When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.
Wole Soyinka
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
Honore de Balzac
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For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.
Anthony Gregory
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Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement
Norm Coleman
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Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
Paul Park
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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
Bill Gates
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Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
George Richard Marek
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Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
Arshad Warsi
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The police have almost no protected vehicles, few heavy weapons similar to those of insurgents, are often located in extremely vulnerable buildings, and have weak communications. Corruption is a major issue.
Anthony H. Cordesman
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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.
Saul Alinsky
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This absence of basic oversight has allowed individual corruption to flourish system-wide.
Chris Shays
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Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country.
Dmitry Peskov
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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky