Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Corruption exists everywhere.

Corruption was not merely political; it was financial, commercial, social.

Tolerance of corruption, explicit and implicit, has made it impossible to govern…. We need absolute transparency of all the assets of government officials.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Corruption is everywhere, man.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

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.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Aid corrupts.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

We have a lot of poverty and a great deal of money coming into the country. This is a recipe for corruption. We have just prosecuted high government officials for corruption for the first time in Afghan history.

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

Corruption is a problem in almost all developing countries.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

Corruption has also proved difficult to root out because it is not simply a matter of the powerful preying on the weak.… graft and fraud can offer ways for a poor person to climb the socioeconomic ladder.

No enemy of free government is more dangerous and none so insidious as corruption.