Sal Albanese Quotes

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

The 'conspiracy theorist' is no longer a crazy person with a tinfoil hat, but they are the Edward Snowdens and the WikiLeaks that bring down major institutions and are the catalysts for social change.

The Clinton Foundation scandal raises a larger question: How can we trust Hillary Clinton with running our nation if she cannot even successfully manage her own foundation?

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can see the filth that comes out.

If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you understand two things: First of all, that he's a criminal, really, by any standard of decency, and he's a great liar.

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people's lives for the better.

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Fifa has lost the trust of the people. We cannot allow the architects and controllers of world football to get away with dragging the beautiful game through the grime of corruption and bribery.

We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

I am saying this with a certain sense of confidence and not arrogance. The defence ministry is being run without any middleman and in a transparent way. We have proved that defence procurement can happen without middlemen.