Top 1200 Government Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Kerala has little tolerance for corruption. We have also made our governance as transparent as much as possible.

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

If you look at the Malaysian media, you will find that, although some are supportive of the government, many are not, and they are very critical of the government.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Government is the only industry in which we don't have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn't have to be.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

I want to appeal to all people to come together across the country and stand against this politics of corruption.