Wendell Phillips Quotes

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

A government, … protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

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

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

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

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

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

Morality of society has deteriorated so much due to the government's bad policy of selling office positions

The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes.

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

Our government is corrupt.