Subramanian Swamy Quotes

Corrupt bureaucrats and cops ought to dismissed or compulsorily retired from service, as they are a drain on the service. Their performance must be vigorously assessed.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

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

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

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

Was there ever such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

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

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

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

We shouldn’t be lending money to corrupt officials. We should be guarded in our generosity.

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

On streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of money now changes hands—tying the hands of those elected to lead.