Top 1200 Government Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things that the government could not do. The private sector complied. That is what I am suggesting.
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. — © Jacob Bronowski
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.
The most important thing the federal government can do is actually sit down with municipal leaders and provincial premiers to talk about the challenges they're facing in their particular areas. That's something I've committed to being a much better partner on than this current government, which doesn't like to talk to other levels of government.
To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.
Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.
The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it. — © Ashraf Ghani
The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
Every time I see corruption, it pains me.
Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.
Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.
New York... where people come for their Ph.D. in corruption.
I have always been brazen. That's why I can't tolerate corruption.
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.
We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people's hearts.
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.
I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.
In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.
I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power. — © Ksenia Sobchak
I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
Where we see corruption and can make a case against it, we're being aggressive.
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.
Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone.
It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.
I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country. — © Ksenia Sobchak
I'm a politician who's against corruption that Putin has done in our country.
The future can be just and green - not corruption-mired and polluted.
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
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