Miriam Defensor-Santiago Quotes

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal …. There is too much corruption even at this infant stage of our republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous.

The first sign of corruption in a society ... is that the ends justify the means.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Most of us in Congress steal our speeches.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

When you steal from the government, you steal from yourself.

What kind of signal is Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving by closeting himself with tainted politicians and financial fraud-accused of YSR Congress undergoing trial?

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.