Corruption Quotes

“The biggest disease today is corruption. The vaccine for it is transparency.”

“I will prepare 100 coffins. 99 for the corrupt officials and the last one for myself. I am ready to perish with them if that is what it takes to clean up the country.”

“I was in the top of my profession. I was one of the most successful lobbyists in Washington D.C. And I was corrupt.”

“When you're in it, you don't feel you're doing anything wrong.”

“Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.”

“Follow the money.”

“The sport is still run by the same guys who ran it in the nineties... It's not a sport that's been through a catharsis.”

“A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of power will be corrupted by it.”

“The system is the problem. It's a system of legalized bribery.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

“They are using 'national security' as a pretext to cover up their own criminal activities.”

“The swamp in Washington is deeper and wider than any of us imagined.”

“The biggest enemy of the Afghan people is corruption.”

“Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but the friend of corruption.”

“Washington is a city of transactions. It's a city where everything is for sale.”

“The corruption is not the exception, it's the norm.”

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Our government is a bird with two right wings... they're devoted to the same big-business interests that finance their campaigns.”

“The corruption is everywhere. You can't escape it.”

“I've got this thing and it's fucking golden, and I'm just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing.”