Wole Soyinka Quotes

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

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.

Allah has cursed the one who pays bribes, the one who receives them, and the one who arranges the act between two parties.

I did not wish to bribe myself.

Bribes and special deals were offered to members to say yes.

How can it be illegal or unethical if the most important man in Congress is doing it?

Many government officials have very high moral standards at the beginning of their duties, but after a while some officials sway from the right path and easily fall into the temptation of bribery and fraud.

Politicians are expected to spend half their time talking to funders and to keep them happy. Given this context, it's not hard to see how a bribery charge can feel like a technical argument instead of a moral one.

Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also talking about what personal business favors they might want. And when the conversation goes down that road, it does risk crossing the line into solicitation of a bribe.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

I will keep repeating, that if you find me guilty of corruption then take the strictest action against me.

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.

If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Corruption is the most dangerous public disease haunting the humanity, which diagnoses the public state of heath. The deeper is the corruption and corruption activities the sicker is the society and it needs a treatment.

A perception of a conflict of interest is jsut as bad as a conflict of interest,

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

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corruption is as bad as the reality of it.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA.