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Corruption Quotes
Most Famous Corruption Quotes of All Time!
Some of these lines take aim at the systems meant to keep power honest. One speaks to distrust of the media as an institution, while another wrestles with debates over voter ID rules and the fear of electoral fraud, both framed here as opinion rather than settled fact. See Government quotes for more on public institutions.
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- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I have fought corruption.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you fight corruption, it fights back.
- Doing The Right Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.
Others point past politics entirely, to how weak governance can let forests fall to illegal logging while soil quietly wears away. A recurring idea here is that people notice corruption long before they act on it at the ballot box. Browse Fight quotes on pushing back, or Country quotes on national identity.