Quotes and Sayings about Corruption

Quotes and Sayings about Corruption

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

I basically think everybody would be better off if people weren't able to exert so much influence on politicians with money.

Bernie Madoff

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

Kamal Haasan

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

James K. Polk

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Studs Terkel

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Morena Baccarin

Brazil South America

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Kurt Cobain

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Vladimir Putin

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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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Politics have no relation to morals.

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Politics Morality

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

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Politics Honesty

You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.

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Character Self-Confidence

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Art Truth Politicians

F*ck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years.

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P. J. O'Rourke

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

Kamal Haasan

I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

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It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

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