Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

It is too early to tell where Mobutu will draw the line between corruption and the ‘normal’ use of payments and patronage to facilitate operations.

Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff - not me.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

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

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

I don't think that anybody is worse than a public official who sells his office and corrupts others.

The Mexican government has been corrupt for 140 years.

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

One thing, and one thing only, prevents the establishment of a stable Central Government at Peking, and this is the insatiable greed of money which possesses every Chinese who attains to public office.

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

Tolerance of corruption, explicit and implicit, has made it impossible to govern…. We need absolute transparency of all the assets of government officials.

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.

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

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.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Corruption exists everywhere.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.