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Corruption Quotes

"Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism"

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

"The most scandalous aspect of the scandal is that one gets used to it"

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile"

"The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud."

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"Politicians are more interested in their power"

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted"

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods"

"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver"

"The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse "

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