Quotes About Corrupt Governments

#1. I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. In Reagan's world, we have to be geared up to fight a foe that could barely feed its own people. And meanwhile, our real troubles have to be mocked. Global warming. Nuclear proliferation. Corrupt governments supported by my tax dollars and everyone's complacency.

Robert Reed

#3. It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

Julian Assange

#4. It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing.

Dave Brubeck

#5. Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the corrupt and fiscally unsustainable symbiosis between public-sector unions and state governments? Hell no.

Charles Krauthammer

#6. There is a Cult of Western evangelists and self-righteous crusaders who are determined to dislodge non-Western nations and usurp their governments.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#7. Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

Thomas Paine

#8. We must go from boxes to arrows. Tomorrow belongs to those who connect.

Peter Morville

#9. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

William Rees-Mogg

#10. The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?)

Gena Showalter

#11. I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be-because my friends back home described so many types-and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. You didn't shove your tongue down my throat. You didn't grab my butt. We just held our lips together ... and kissed.

Jay Asher

#12. A part of me isn't like those women who love being pregnant. I love my baby, and I miss that feeling of being attached to him when he's kicking, but I was so ready to not be pregnant.

Hilary Duff

#13. The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.

Robert A. Caro

#14. This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Strom Thurmond

#15. Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Samantha Power

#16. Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

#17. We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Mary Augusta Ward

#19. There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

Melina Marchetta

#20. The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

Stanley Kubrick

#21. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

Fanny Fern

#22. There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Alexander Meiklejohn

#23. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

Ludwig Von Mises

#24. When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

Peggy Rathmann

#25. Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.

Steven Magee

#26. My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Jo Brand

#27. All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.

Steven Magee