Quotes About Corruption In Politics

#1. It will be interesting to see if they accept the idea that not only actual corruption in politics needs to be addressed, but the appearance of corruption as well, ensuring public confidence and all that.

Larry Noble

#2. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

B.W. Powe

#4. When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Thomas Paine

#5. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Jay Leno

#6. Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

Charles Bukowski

#7. Censorship exists to protect corruption.

Suzy Kassem

#8. The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).

James Morcan

#9. scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made a reality.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

Richard Flanagan

#11. What fueled this hatred? Society.

Shannon A. Thompson

#12. We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

Bryant McGill

#13. You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

Steven Magee

#14. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they've just got to believe you're an idiot.

David Foster Wallace

#16. All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clive James

#17. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.

Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.

And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.

Chris Martenson

#18. Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Bill Maher

#19. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker

#20. I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.

Amit Abraham

#21. Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities
you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Voltaire

#22. Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

#23. Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

William Easterly

#24. One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.

Michel Templet

#25. Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.

David McCullough

#26. The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

Tammy Bruce

#27. What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.

P.D. James

#28. Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.

Narendra Modi

#29. Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

Kenneth Eade

#30. Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

Emma Goldman

#31. Since politics - until recently - has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Bertha Knight Landes

#32. The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

Tiffany Madison

#33. They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

Rana Dasgupta

#34. No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. Oh, I take your meaning now, Marcus," he said, as if comprehension had just dawned. "You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic.

Andrew Levkoff

#36. Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity.
It also shows us about politics and corruption; and that's a fact.

Toba Beta

#37. No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

#38. The most fundamental problem is not that we don't have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#39. Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones.

Kenneth Eade

#40. The actual theme of corruption can condemn humanity and this conflict can be resolved when people are diligent to put an end to this catastrophe as a community.

Saaif Alam

#41. Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement of national resources.

Moutasem Algharati

#42. As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

John Dewey

#43. Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

Sukant Ratnakar

#44. It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt
and fueled even more than Hollywood by money
if that's possible.

Ben Affleck

#46. Dear Government ... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

Stieg Larsson

#47. From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help ... Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

Narendra Modi

#48. There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Barry Eisler

#49. Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.

Amit Abraham

#50. I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Andrew Jackson

#51. Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power.

Dean Koontz

#52. power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

Dean Cavanagh

#53. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#54. As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

Katherine Boo

#55. Where there's corruption in government, somebody or everybody's making a lot of money. That makes it dangerous.

Kenneth Eade

#56. Politics, it's all corrupt!

Steven Magee

#57. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Tiffany Madison

#58. [I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Lawrence Lessig

#59. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

Mark Twain

#60. Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#61. I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Seth Godin

#62. Corporate greed controls political will.

Aaron B. Powell

#63. Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Criss Jami

#64. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

Christopher Mart

#65. The corrupt begat corruption.

Steven Magee

#66. politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

J.D. Robb

#67. The wholesale corruption of social relationships, even the most intimate, is an essential part of Shakespeare's chilling exposure of authoritarian politics.

William Shakespeare

#68. Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

Auliq Ice

#69. And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Edward Abbey

#70. By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Victoria Stoklasa

#71. Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#72. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Thomas Love Peacock

#73. If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.

Sukant Ratnakar

#74. You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

Christopher Hitchens

#75. When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

Stan Jones

#76. We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Chetan Bhagat

#77. The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Theodore Roosevelt

#78. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#79. The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

John Hamill

#80. He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

Isabel Allende

#81. Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

Thomas Frank

#82. Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.

Felix O. Hartmann

#83. Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it

Narendra Modi

#84. A DEAD STATESMAN
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18

Rudyard Kipling

#85. Political leaders are reflection of our society.

Sukant Ratnakar

#86. We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it ... I will govern as a reformer.

Rod Blagojevich

#87. The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

Ted Sarandos

#88. when you have politics, you have corruption." "Possibly.

J.D. Robb