Corrupt Quotations

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking.

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready.

When I look at Washington today, we need to bring us together. We need to solve problems, we need to rebuild our military so we can stand up to radical Islam, we need to get our economy growing much faster by throwing out the corrupt tax code and lowering the rates.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety.

If this doesn't get any better, if people don't see a dime's bit of difference between corrupt Republicans and the same tired old Democrats, ... there could be a third party movement coming on.

If we don't clean up our corrupt system of financing political campaigns, the people's agenda won't get done, ... Our loophole-ridden campaign finance system puts the special interests at the table, while locking moms, dads and kids out of the room.

Let's not let these individuals with this devil mentality corrupt our city. For people who are scared to come forth, come forth. We shouldn't have to be afraid.

She didn't want him associated with that. He was somebody who had been a legislator for 30 years, and had accumulated that much power. They say power corrupts, but it didn't corrupt him.

Many of the disasters and incidents that have occurred around the world have been caused by a corrupt turnstile operator.

We are going to rise up to overthrow the supreme governments, to overthrow corrupt officials, to throw all the rich and powerful out of this country and begin building a new Mexico with humble, simple people.

Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.

I can't imagine too many voters rising in defense of the corrupt practices of the GOP House.

Fraudulent political theater designed to protect the corrupt tax code and those who profit from its manipulation. When a Presidential panel engages in such activities it does a disservice to the American people.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Batman is positive, but I believe that, in the first couple of years, he's going to find an increasingly negative response from society, because the truth is that, when you have a powerful, negative city like Gotham, it didn't become corrupt by accident, and those entrenched people are going to respond very vigorously,

I have been a victim of a corrupt government, ... You are guilty of murder.

Having a journalistic presence in a place like the Congo is about more than merely the daily story; it's about Congolese officials knowing there is daily scrutiny of their actions. Now you have corrupt officials, and they feel no eyes on their backs.

If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt

What makes this different is it's not just a few bad apples. It's that people at the top decided to build in a kind of systemic corrupt process. That is different from what we had before.

The purpose of the index was to create a conversation in rich countries about what it means to be a global citizen. We are not just talking about aid volumes; we are also asking questions about whether this aid is going to tyrants and corrupt dictators.

Maryland Democrats successfully stood against Republican efforts to corrupt the legislative process with this bigoted amendment.

I'm still high on him. He's the right leader to bring the city back?especially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power.

Judge Greer is a corrupt judge. And that should not surprise anybody. People find out about corrupt judges all the time.

It is important in principle to know the truth so that something like this cannot happen again, and so that incompetent, irresponsible, corrupt people - people without morals - will be punished. That is not what is happening.

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

Our three branches of government have become like an unstable chair, a three-legged chair. The founders could not have envisioned how much money and special interests would corrupt the political process. Giving us Americans legislative power will put forth the fourth leg of our stool and make it stable.

Our goal is to get our school to stop investing money in a corrupt government that is participating in genocide.

I think he falls in love with her all over again after she's gone and as he uncovers what she had been up to -- her work to uncover a vast and very corrupt corporate and political conspiracy. It's particularly intriguing since -- for much of the early part of the film -- Justin is suspicious of her; thinking she was having an affair. I think the film asks questions about relationships between people and personal honesty. The honesty between couples and not just at the level of betrayal, but just about simple communication.

I think we appear as the most morally corrupt country on the planet.

It appears that that's the jury has found one corrupt persuader but was unable to agree on which one.

Those who are found to be corrupt must face the full force of the law.

Two years ago, the New York Racing Association was a poster child for mismanagement and corruption, ... While much still remains to be done, the result has proven that reform of even a very poorly managed and corrupt agency is possible.

The American public loses when officials and lobbyists conspire to buy and sell influence in such a corrupt and brazen manner. By his admission in open court today, Mr. Rudy paints a picture of Washington which the American public and law enforcement will simply not tolerate.

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.

We have to have court doors open to make sure they (the courts) are not involved in corrupt actions. As soon as you put asset information behind the cloak of secrecy, then no one will be able to determine that justice is being done.

Whether he had a corrupt motive, he certainly had to know that there was a very substantial risk of somehow derailing the Plunder Dome prosecution at a very critical time,

You'll probably see a similar type regime coming into power in Pakistan, which will be as corrupt as they have been in the past and as incompetent as they have been in the past.

You don't corrupt the democratic process in the hopes that terrorists might toe the line. To get into this club, you have to accept the rules of the club. You give up your weaponry, you accept democratic and peaceful means -- and that entitles you to be part of the democratic process.

You can have a network of 20 or 30 clubs across different continents, all of which have a corrupt element. It sounds a bit like science fiction. It would involve agents, owners, sponsors. ... They would not just rig the results of one or two games, but 15 matches or a series of results.

We just assume politics is corrupt and a little bit of corruption is the cost of doing business.

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved.

Why would you impose such a bold and corrupt regime on the nations of the region unless it (the Holocaust) is a big historical lie.

The process was corrupt and we never really had a chance to convince the Justice Department to block this map.

We have in office a corrupt party which now is ignoring the democratically expressed will of the House of Commons. This government does not have the moral authority and the constitutional authority to govern.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Today's case demonstrates that the corrupt practices first laid bare in the Marsh suit are present in additional sectors of the industry, ... Secret payoffs and conflicts of interest that infected the market for property and casualty insurance have taken root in the employee benefits market as well.

This world, is too comfort to be changed. This world, is too corrupt to be conserved.

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.

When law enforcement and whistleblowers threaten their corrupt allies, they change the rules of the game.

This Republican Congress is the most corrupt in history and the American people are paying the price.

We need to dismantle this corrupt House DeLay built over the last decade.

The potential for him to be a leader of significant reform in the wake of this corrupt Congress is very great. We want the parties to fight over who has the best reform. It will be interesting to watch and see if he takes advantage of the opportunity.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Corrupt corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray employees and investors,

Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may have long range effects, prompting the reader intuitively, subconsciously, to do evil while thinking they're doing good.

I've been extremely disappointed to hear evidence for the last three days here that I interpret as a complete disregard of our election law, and the corrupt attempt, in my opinion, to prevent the public from knowing the source and recipients of contributions.

The Zimbabwe government's own gross mismanagement of the economy and its corrupt rule has brought on the crisis, ... Plain Talk About Zimbabwe's Economy.

We're talking about research that was conducted statewide without regard to geography, partisanship, gender or any other criteria, ... The only votes I'm trying to suppress are dead people, criminals and those who wish to corrupt the system.

The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.

We're stuck with Tom DeLay, Rick Perry and the rest of the corrupt Republican leadership who's auctioned off the state Capitol to the highest bidder. Their pay-to-play style of politics has put special interests over the best interests of our state.

There cannot be any peace with a dictatorial, corrupt and tyrannical regime. This has to be a different authority,

We do not stand up to this corrupt Government enough. I will not pay excessive charges be they for council tax, water charges or whatever. I will pay what is due if it is fair but I demand fairness.

We are surprised by this typically treacherous conduct on the part of the military, which is headed by a corrupt and illegitimate commander-in-chief.

The older order changeth, yielding place to new, and God fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world

The government tends to see evil where there is good, corrupt intent where there's none.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

As long as this corrupt regime fails to leave the scene, we will stick together.

As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of music, we will continue to make it clear that there are consequences for these unlawful actions.

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

America can do better than what we've done. The most corrupt Congress in the history of the country. We have such significant problems with what's going on in this country.

A lot of the old apparatchiks came back in, and corruption really dramatically increased in '94/'95, particularly around Yeltsin's re-election in 1996, when the government used corrupt practices to give money to business, part of which was returned to the campaign coffers, and helped pay for Yeltsin's re-election.

The United States will not welcome corrupt people to our country,

This corrupt deed by state legislators will energize voters to sign the http://www.VoteYesMarriage.com petition a month from now, to protect marriage rights for one man and one woman once and for all,

This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.

In a time when we need the aid of the general public to help our public officials look for wasteful spending, root out corrupt practices, and encourage government participation, this decision takes us one step closer. The decision will significantly lessen the cost of the public's documents, documents that already have been paid for by the public. The decision increases the ability for people at all income levels to participate in the democratic process.

If law enforcement officials have the tools to crack down on corrupt gun dealers and criminals face background checks wherever they buy guns, we can slow the flood of illegal guns to a trickle and save countless lives.

In the corrupt court there is no possibility to dream or to make contact to love. They are exiled to the forest as a punishment (but) this punishment turns out to be a gift. The gift of being in a place where there is no time.