Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

We are fighting corruption and all illegal activities and building a culture of transparency and ethical governance.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

The fight against corruption is a grave political struggle vital to the very existence of the party and the state.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

The best citizens were supposed to desire honest men in office, men who would not take bribes, men who would appoint high-minded men as their subordinates, men who would look after the public interest, see that public charities were well supported.

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

I am calling upon all of you to come out and fight corruption and agree to support the government in fighting corruption as our first priority.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.

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.

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

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.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

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

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.