Subhash Bhatnagar Quotes

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

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.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

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

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

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

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance as a temptation to corruption when compared with the squandering of the public lands.

Aid corrupts.

Donors have too often appeared to shore up secretive regimes with loans and assistance, the details of which are kept from the citizens they are ostensibly intended to help. In some countries, these citizens are now expected to make good the loans plundered by their former leaders with the apparent acquiescence of the lenders.

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

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

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.