James Comey Quotes

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

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

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

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

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

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

Nobody is going to call me 'Sergio 15,' someone who takes a 15 percent cut from every contract. We aren't stealing ... way too much money was stolen in the past.

Find the corrupt officials and then prosecute them and send them to prison!

Corruption is becoming more and more sophisticated in our societies. In the institutions we are talking about, the people who are corrupt are actually the ones who set up these institutions

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.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Corruption exists everywhere.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

Corruption is a very lucrative business.