Corruption Quotes - Page 16

• When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.

  Wole Soyinka

  Horse, Children, Practice

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Thinking, Different

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Fairs, Not Fair

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

  Wole Soyinka

  Next, World, Commodity

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Years, White

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Enough Already

  Source: time.com

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• Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a new constitution that is liberal, democratic and still very Afghan. All of that does reflect a vision. But he's presided over a country that is still in conflict, and he hasn't taken some of the difficult decisions his own government wanted him to take. On corruption, he hasn't been as decisive as he should've been. There are legitimate questions about him.

  Chris Alexander

  Country, Taken, Government

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit and wait for their member of Parliament to come and solve the problem. Now that won't take you anywhere. And if you follow it, you will see that it feeds corruption in the country.

  Wangari Maathai

  Country, People, Waiting

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

  Charles Koch

  Discipline, Regulation, Easy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Hillary Clinton machine.

  Donald Trump

  Together, Wikileaks, Machines

  "Trump on New Allegations". www.cnn.com. October 13, 2016.

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• The last thing our country needs is four more years of Barack Obama, believe me. I've seen first hand the corruption and the sickness that has taken over our politics. You've seen it and I've seen it and we're all watching together.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Taken

  Source: time.com

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• When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence, I know that corruption has reached a level like never, ever before in America!

  Donald Trump

  Country, Lying, America

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, America, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Taken, Years, People

  Source: www.indians.org

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• The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law - as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  World, Want, Enough

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Effort, Socialism

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Opportunity, Return

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

  Eric Cantor

  Lost Love, Majority, Looks

  "Yep, Eric Cantor Really Said All of These Things" by Austin Tedesco, www.boston.com. June 11, 2014.

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• The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

  Shimon Peres

  Winning, Uprising, Israel

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• Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Clean, Should

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• I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

  Vladimir Putin

  Chechnya

  "Vladimir Putin mocks Moscow's 'condom-wearing' protesters" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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• People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Immigration, Mexico

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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