Corruption Quotes - Page 5

• The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Power, Belief, Sane

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

  Claudio Hummes

  Land, Violence, Murder

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• At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sun, Length

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.26

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• 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

  Country, Political, Tradition

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• He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
  The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
  Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
  Against temptation.

  John Milton

  Temptation, Lasts, Vain

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

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• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Land, Jail

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• That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Writing, Average

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• It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.

  Edward Mortimer

  Nice, People, Church

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• Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Sacrifice, People, Church

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• Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Survival, Church

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• Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Past, Church

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.46, Seven Stories Press

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• It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

  Cesar Chavez

  Moon, Oil, Giving

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.

  Brian E. Frosh

  Thinking, Annapolis, Process

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• The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

  Chuck Todd

  Scandal, Mccain, Right Now

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• It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

  Mark Foley

  Pits, Abomination, Absolutes

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• Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Mexico, Levels, May

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• The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

  Harry Markopolos

  Needs, Scandal, Foxes

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• I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.

  Harry Markopolos

  People, Looks, Scandal

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• Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

  Paul Krugman

  Different, Stories, Scandal

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• It looked incredibly credible!

  Nicola Horlick

  Scandal, Credible

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• A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

  Harry Markopolos

  Regulation, Scandal, Given

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

  George W. Bush

  Pages, Scandal, Newspapers

  "The sins of the CEOs". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. August 7, 2002.

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• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

  Kenneth Lay

  Law, Scandal, Break

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