Alexei Navalny Quotes

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

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

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.

Nobody is immune to corruption. The difference is in how the society responds to corruption. Are the corrupt in jail as they are in Israel and most democracies. Or are they leaders in the government as in Palestine under the PLO.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

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 want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

We're doing a lot about corruption... it takes a long time and we are doing the right measures. It took 20 years for the system under successive military governments to become so corrupt, so it will take time to bring it under control.

We must reduce corruption to its fair proportions.

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

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

Corruption has to be removed from the whole country.

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 understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

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

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.