Alan Greenspan Quotes

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

Corruption in Saudi Arabia is quite different from corruption in most other countries, as it is not limited to a 'bribe' in return for a contract, or expensive gift for the family member of a government official or prince, or use of a private jet that is charged to the government so a family can go on vacation.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.

Honest Graft

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

When you've got a guy who's in position to influence who gets what, the potential is always there for corruption.

Mr. Ten Percent

It is assumed that every one wants some thing. Even the strictly honorable want honors. In the list of illegitimate favors are to be counted; unconscionable grants to public utilities; undeserved deposits to friendly banks; low valuation for taxation to large corporations and individuals with a pull; a complaisant building inspector; delinquent taxes allowed to remain delinquent; appropriation for public purposes of property no longer desired by the owner at a price far in excess of actual value. For the less powerful, there are grants of market or parking privileges, poor relief, indigent soldier burials, taking care of traffic citations, lending dogs from the dog pound, and so on down to the right of unmolested profitable street-begging.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Corruption has also proved difficult to root out because it is not simply a matter of the powerful preying on the weak.… graft and fraud can offer ways for a poor person to climb the socioeconomic ladder.

Corruption was not merely political; it was financial, commercial, social.

Tolerance of corruption, explicit and implicit, has made it impossible to govern…. We need absolute transparency of all the assets of government officials.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.