Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Compared to publicity…internal checks upon bureaucratic misbehavior…have but negligible value.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

Corruption has to be removed from the whole country.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Counter-corruption agencies cannot make a difference unless they are independent of the government actors they are supposed to monitor, restrain, and punish.

Without legal and political institutions that control corruption, pro-growth policies will be ineffective.

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.

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 believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

We are going to secure this country. We are going to manage it properly. We will continue to improve the situation, security, economy, and fighting corruption.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.

Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.