Benazir Bhutto Quotes

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.

… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics

CBC: Corrupt Bastard’s Club

Corruption is a problem in almost all developing countries.

Corruption was not merely political; it was financial, commercial, social.

Corruption in Saudi Arabia is quite different from corruption in most other countries, as it is not limited to a 'bribe' in return for a contract, or expensive gift for the family member of a government official or prince, or use of a private jet that is charged to the government so a family can go on vacation.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

In Nigeria, corruption remains a way of life, especially in government and business.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

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

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.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.