Corrupt Quotes

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.