Corruption Quotes - Page 35

• The work to eradicate corruption must begin from the top. It is spread like termite in our country. We have to work at all levels to eradicate corruption

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Levels, Spread

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• Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, India, I Can

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• Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, People, Giving

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• Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Common, Reason

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• I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Angel, Impossible

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• When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Cities, Soul

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Galloway”, p.177, Bantam

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• I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Suicide, Country, Lying

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• 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

  Powerful, Political, Machines

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Views, Law

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors, even though they have exposed the corruption, lawlessness and host of antidemocratic practices engaged in by established governments. Police can take DNA samples of all people arrested of a crime, whether they are proven guilty or not. The United States is incarcerating people in record numbers, imprisoning over 2.3 million inmates while 6 million people at any one time [are] under carceral supervision - more than were in Stalin's Gulag.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Dna, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

  George Brandis

  Has Beens

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Real Change, Plenty

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Under my contract with the American voter, we are proposing a series of ethics reforms on day one to end government corruption. They include a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Term Limits, American Voters

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Challenges, Public Service

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Religious, War, Government

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• There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.

  Akbar Ganji

  Teacher, People, Faces

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I really felt Mitt Romney was a - not my candidate. I didn't exactly like his policies, but I thought he was an honest guy. I didn't think that he would engage in corruption. He wasn't involved in some of the things that the administration, I felt, was involved with.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Guy, Administration

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As much as I disagree with Bernie Sanders - at least Bernie Sanders was a man seemingly of principle, a man who actually believed in something, was not surrounding himself with corruption and was moving in the direction that the people are moving.

  Glenn Beck

  Moving, Men, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

  David Brooks

  Government, Earning It, Way

  "Week In Politics: Trump Begins 'Thank You' Tour In Indiana". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, apr.org. December 2, 2016.

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• The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Independent

  Source: time.com

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• Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.

  Jackie Mason

  Mean, Years, Two

  Source: spectator.org

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• The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him.

  Jackie Mason

  Hints, Levels, Lifetime

  Source: spectator.org

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• Hillary Clinton's life has been filled with corruption but nobody cares.

  Jackie Mason

  Care, Clinton, Filled

  Source: spectator.org

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