Mahathir Mohamad Quotes

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

If the president were to displace from office a man whose merits require that he should continue in it… he will be impeachable by this House before the Senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.

If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself reelected.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

The People will have unfounded Power. And the People are extremely addicted to Corruption and Venality, as well as the Great. I am not without Apprehensions from this Quarter.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

If a king goes astray the common people pay for the sin.

This entire administration has been a disgrace from the very beginning to everyone who has had any thing to do with bring it to power. I take my full share of the … shame myself. I can atone for what I have done no otherwise than in refusing to be instrumental in continuing it.

The world will go on much as it did before; and be always quite bad enough to allow bribery and corruption, jobbery and nepotism, quackery and arrogance, their full influence over our home and foreign policy.

Whenever any one of them [world leaders] hath striven to improve its country’s condition, his motive hath been his own gain

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

No good can come out of sharing responsibility in the cabinet in which the irresponsible elements dominate decisions and policy.

In a word, everything is for sale, anything can be bought in our country. And in this flow, he who holds the slightest cover of public authority uses it illegally to acquire money, goods, prestige or to avoid obligations. The right to be recognized by a public servant, to have one's children enrolled in school, to obtain medical care, etc. ...are all subject to this tax which, though invisible, is known and expected by all.

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

Too many leaders in … countries turned out to be more interested in using their freedom to loot rather than liberate.