Loretta Lynch Quotes

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

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

We've had corruption -- corruption doesn't exist only in Africa. Where there is a corruptee, there is a corrupter. Right? It's always a two-way process.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Corruption exists everywhere.

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

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

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

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

Corruption may be one way of surmounting traditional laws or bureaucratic regulations which hamper economic expansion.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; when once set a rolling, it must increase.

… an organized system of blackguardism.

The hanky-panky in public service that really matters is about money and not sex.

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.