Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

Corruption is an endemic evil—a cultural problem, not only for Mexico but for all Latin America

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Corruption in Georgia was so bad that no one could imagine life without it.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

Corruption is rampant in Pakistan and the government’s failure to control the practice has made it almost impossible to reverse the trend.

Corruption is Ukraine's main enemy; we must destroy it. It's really painful to hear that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

Every link in the chain that runs from the corporation desiring political favors down to the policeman on the beat levying his toll on the prostitute or the apple-seller is too strong to have been broken yet.

He that buyeth Magistracy, must sell justice.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.