Top 1200 Government Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

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

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

We need to not be afraid to step up and take a fight to the corruption that's in this world.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

I support the administrative rules promulgated by the Department of the Interior which permit a Native Hawaiian government to establish a relationship with the U.S. government. If Native Hawaiians form a government consistent with those rules and seek federal recognition, I would likely support the request.

I am fighting to stop the corruption in Washington that was created by Mitch McConnell.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

Bipartisan reformers have long recognized that earmarks make way for corruption.

The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.

Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.

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

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we have a constitution that limits the power of the federal government to a few specific, but important things and we have abandoned that. We have abandoned it in both political parties.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

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

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

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

The BJP does not intend to use Parliament to project Congress's corruption.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

My action against corruption has been well acclaimed by the people of Orissa.

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

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

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

Modi's impact on Punjab is zero because of large-scale corruption.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The people are going to be able to judge for themselves who is supporting corruption and who is against it.

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time