The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
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