Sepp Blatter Quotes

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation.

The mandate of financial fair play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means.

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

Follow the Money

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

The idea that RBI will be able to make a big transfer to the government was misplaced. It was a very good signalling device that the government was very serious about cracking down on corruption and black money. But I do not think it was very effective in curbing it.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank.

While giving a clear majority to my government in 2014, the people of the country had also given a clear mandate to take strict action against corruption and black money.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

I love cricket and am the last person who would get involved in something like spot-fixing. Anyone who knows me will think twice before coming to me with such an offer. Because I don't even listen to the captain before I play a match. I wouldn't agree to do it even for Rs 100 crore.

There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.

For the record, I've never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn't need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.