Robert J. Bentley Quotes

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I have never asked anyone, including the president, for anything for the company or my personal gain.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

You know when you go into your pocket and feel another hand in there? Well, that's Premier Kathleen Wynne.

We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.

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

Officials are under a constant temptation to misuse their power for the private profit of themselves or others.

Corruption hits hardest at the poorest in society, those with limited or no possibilities to defend themselves. But corruption affects the whole of society as well. Decisions supposedly taken for the public good are in truth motivated by a desire for private gain and result in policies and projects that impoverish rather than enrich a country.

As a matter of general sound public policy, I am very certain that there is a requirement that where a public official is under inquiry or investigation, especially an elected official, and it appears that his scale of living or the total of his bank deposits far exceeds the public salary which he is known to receive, he, the elected public official, owes a positive public duty to the community to give a reasonable or credible explanation of the sources of the deposits, or the source which enables him to maintain a scale of living beyond the amount of his salary.

This office has in recent decades, in my view, been seriously misused and distorted

Trump's foundation has done nothing. Its board is packed with relatives, and he's going to use his presidency to sell himself and his brand and profit personally for himself and his family.

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.