Quotes About Political Corruption

#1. Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

Ben Carson

#2. Ex-Im is the lowest of low-hanging fruit in the sprawling tree of American political corruption. And yet House Republicans cannot seem to pluck it.

Anonymous

#3. It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Martin Scorsese

#4. Corruption.
like anything it is systematic, and without a level of corruption ost societies would seize up, the levels of accepted/expected political corruption don't even raise eyebrows anymore, especially when it runs parallel to our economic systems, so I guess we are stuck with it.

Steve Merrick

#5. 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

#6. Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Tiffany Madison

#7. True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy

Angelica Hopes

#8. 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

#9. Cry Wolf' is a hard-boiled thriller written at break-neck pace of political corruption and organised, very violent crime.

Mike Ripley

#10. Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Mitch Landrieu

#11. Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

Philip Gourevitch

#12. 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

#13. One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Upton Sinclair

#14. nepotism, patronage, political corruption, and ethnic divisions.

Wayne Worcester

#15. The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Asif Kapadia

#16. As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

W. H. Auden

#17. Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Arianna Huffington

#18. In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Lee R. Raymond

#19. 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

#20. The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him ... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

Cliff Asness

#21. It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

Will Rogers

#22. For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#23. 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

#24. Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

John F. Kennedy

#25. During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming out of New Jersey at the time. The long hand that they had-and maybe still do-even had to do with presidential elections.

Martin Scorsese

#26. The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
- ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908

J.M. Carlisle

#27. There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

#29. As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Glenn Greenwald

#30. Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island's flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci - a paragon of charisma and corruption.

Philip Gourevitch

#31. Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here's the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law.

Victoria Stoklasa MA

#32. Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

Andrew Thomas

#33. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.

Andrew James Pritchard

#34. A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

Evgeny Morozov

#35. Political leaders are reflection of our society.

Sukant Ratnakar

#36. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Ron Paul

#37. You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

#38. Corporate greed controls political will.

Aaron B. Powell

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#40. [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

#41. Politics, it's all corrupt!

Steven Magee

#42. The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Ali Khamenei

#43. That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; ...

Bernard Bailyn

#44. Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This

Charles Murray

#45. 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

#46. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

Edward Brooke

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

Amit Abraham

#51. All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Alexander Herzen

#52. The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#53. The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

Bradley A. Smith

#54. The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

Vishal Mangalwadi