We appeal to Conservatives who just can’t see themselves voting for the corruption and the scandals and the contempt of parliamentary institutions. And of course, we also appeal to people in other parties who are disappointed in their own leadership.
The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan’s a scary place. They don’t have religious freedom. It’s very poor, and there’s a lot of violence and corruption.
The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.
The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Demonetisation was a defining moment in the government’s war on corruption and black money.
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
If Mohammed bin Salman wants to deal properly with corruption, he must preserve two elements vital to the Saudi economy: trust in the state and the role of national companies.
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
Since Bin Laden’s death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.
I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
In no civilised country is the head of the government immune from corruption investigation.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
We must fight against negativeness – especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
Corruption is Africa’s greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.
The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can’t be easily disentangled.
As you fight corruption, it fights back.
Patrimonial capitalism’s legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
Our society is ridden with corruption and corrupt people. This is perhaps the reason why despite receiving several offers, I am unwilling to contest elections as I lack what it takes to become a politician.
We need to not be afraid to step up and take a fight to the corruption that’s in this world.
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa – the economic poverty, the corruption – there’s a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.
Police work in major cities – and New York is no exception – has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.
To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don’t do this, there is no hope.
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Over the year,s the government launched more than one ‘war on corruption,’ and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
2016 is the year of eliminating corruption.
Everybody’s always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that’s when it become corruption.
I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.
Corruption is everywhere. It’s not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering – I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse – is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Fighting corruption by improving financial transparency may be one of the most effective ways of promoting liberty around the world.
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God’s favor, corruption.
Life remains the same for me. It’s always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.
Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I’m going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is.
The people are going to be able to judge for themselves who is supporting corruption and who is against it.
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.
I have fought corruption.
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
There can be no compromise regarding corruption.
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
It’s naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it’s everywhere.
We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.
The sordid story of IRS corruption and political dirty tricks during the Obama years is widely known thanks to numerous documents and emails forced out of the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.
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.
We are going to combat corruption, and we are going to underscore the fact that we want the private investors to be a major part of our future economy.
You can’t take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That’s corruption to do that.
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
