- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bribery Quotes
On corruption, and what it costs a fair system.
These quotes call out bribery directly, from a company accused of using it to win contracts unfairly to a warning that true government of the people cannot survive once its officials start tolerating payoffs in any shape.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the problem is that when you mix discussion of official United States government business with discussion of your personal business, you can tread dangerously close to the bribery statutes.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president has the power to sign or veto a bill. If he signs it, it becomes law. If he vetoes it, it does not become law. That's pretty much an absolute power, but if he signs a bill or vetoes a bill in return for a $100,000 payment, he's guilty of bribery and he can go to jail.
- Inheritance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
- Allocation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
- Allegation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020