Geoffery Robertson Quotes

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Nobody is immune to corruption. The difference is in how the society responds to corruption. Are the corrupt in jail as they are in Israel and most democracies. Or are they leaders in the government as in Palestine under the PLO.

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.

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

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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

This career [politics] of plundering and blundering.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.

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.

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.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.

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

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

I like organised things. I don't like the corruption and slowness of Greece.