Newt Gingrich Quotes

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

The Congressional Ethics Committees are the brothers and sisters of member of Congress and no one wants to investigate their brothers and sisters.

If we do not effectively carry out the struggle against corruption, it will spread like pestilence, and the Communist Party will destroy itself.

There is little doubt that our guarantee fund system is seriously mismanaged and compromised.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Where there has been a major, major corruption scandal, that was the catalyst for very specific reform.

It is easier to fix roads and train police than to change the deep-rooted incentives and habits of those in power.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.