Khalid A. Al-Falih Quotes

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.

Counter-corruption agencies cannot make a difference unless they are independent of the government actors they are supposed to monitor, restrain, and punish.

Corruption undermines public confidence in our country and institutions. It is a huge cost to the economy. Combating it will take courage, determination and perseverance. The most effective means of doing it is by creating a climate not receptive to corruption.

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption.

Preventing staff from having too much influence and decision-making power is fairly easy. Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

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.

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

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

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

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

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.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

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

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

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

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

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

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.

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

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.