John McCain Quotes

Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term.

Follow the Money

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

I don't know of anything illegal or even unethical that Bert Lance has ever done.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

The savings and loan scandals grew in the dark basements of official government secrecy.

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

There will be more [political] scandals. There is too much money around …. It is legal for an American subsidiary corporation owned by the Chinese Army to make a major contribution to an American political party.

The most misguided, naïve, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court … in the 21st century. To somehow view money as not having a corrupting effect on an election flies in the face of reality. I just think that just one of the five had run for county sheriff. I guarantee you … there will be scandals. There is too much money washing around political campaigns today, and it will take scandals and maybe the Supreme Court will go back and revisit this issue

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

We know India is very focussed on black money; it is a very high-focus subject and we have been very careful to make sure the investments into India are legitimate. There is no 'round-tripping' or hot money or bad money being funnelled through Singapore.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime of denying the nation's financial system the proceeds of wealth. Such denial should actually be declared as treason, where opportunities to share the wealth for the benefit of the poor are wilfully denied.

I'm tired of seeing the press equate Monaco with money laundering.

Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.