Deepak Chopra Quotes

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.

Our government is corrupt.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The boss of all bosses operates like a shifty-eyed precinct captain on the make ... These are activities on would expect of a small-time ward heeler, not a figure of such influence and stature.

I am against government by crony.

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.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.

Modi is shielding and encouraging fraud-accused persons such as Gali Janardhan Reddy and Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy. He is encouraging fraudsters, both directly and indirectly, and thereby helping open floodgates for corruption and frauds.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

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

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

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

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

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.