Arvind Kejriwal Quotes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

People in Washington do things that they shouldn’t do because they owe somebody.

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

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

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

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Honest Graft

You can’t have a corrupt lobbyist if you don’t have a corrupt Congressman or staff member…. It’s a team effort.

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

CBC: Corrupt Bastard’s Club

… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics

Donations to political parties, candidates and elected officials should not be a means to gain personal or policy favours or buy access to politicians or civil servants…. Political parties, candidates and politicians should disclose assets, income and expenditure to an independent agency.

I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

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

In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.