Jeannette Rankin Quotes

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

One only needs a big enough bribe to give in like a lamb.

I’ll use prostitutes to go out and seduce … high campaign officials.

The loggers are more powerful than we are …. There is bribery everywhere.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.

We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

I completely disagree if someone says that corruption of junior government officers should be overlooked.

Corruption has to be removed from the whole country.

Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.

Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also talking about what personal business favors they might want. And when the conversation goes down that road, it does risk crossing the line into solicitation of a bribe.

Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.