Jay Weatherill Quotes

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Without efforts to modernize legal institutions, new international agreements will remain unrealized and our democracies will continue to be threatened by our inability to track corruption and other criminal activities.

We are attacking corruption and every corrupt person—no matter how important he is—will go to jail.

I have fought corruption.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

As New York's chief law enforcement officer, I have taken a hard line against those in state government who abuse the law they have sworn to uphold.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

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

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

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.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.