As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process. – Margaret Carlson
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. – Pauline Hanson
Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long. – Najib Razak
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that… You know, when people want power, they’re a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they’re different again. – David Morrissey
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. – Newt Gingrich
For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts. – Mustafa Akyol
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. – Michele Bachmann
It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats. – Glenn Beck
We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off. – Nicholas Kristof
‘Movement’ sounded like Joy Division, but ‘Power, Corruption & Lies’ is the first New Order record. – Peter Hook
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. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity. – Enrique Pena Nieto
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. – Eric Schneiderman
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. – Matt Taibbi
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations. – Dambisa Moyo
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. – Malcolm Bradbury
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. – Chen-Ning Yang
There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. – Miriam Defensor-Santiago
No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it. – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
All transitions are hard. We took over a country beaten down by lies and corruption. – Mauricio Macri
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a ‘sound bite. – Paul Theroux
They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. – The Bible Daniel 6:4