Bob Etheridge Quotes

I don't think that anybody is worse than a public official who sells his office and corrupts others.

To be sure, the Trump administration is shot through with corruption.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

No enemy of free government is more dangerous and none so insidious as corruption.

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

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

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.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

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

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

The administration of government has become more complex. The opportunities for malfeasance and corruption have multiplied.

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

La Guardia, the petty and the pitiful!

The world will go on much as it did before; and be always quite bad enough to allow bribery and corruption, jobbery and nepotism, quackery and arrogance, their full influence over our home and foreign policy.