Steve Schmidt Quotes

Our government is corrupt.

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.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

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

All governments are more or less corrupt.

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

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

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

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

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

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

Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.

Unhampered corruption breeds more corruption.

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

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Corruption exists everywhere.

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.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

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

… procuring offices for persons who were unfit, and unworthy of them … squandering away the public treasure

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

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