Paul Gosar Quotes

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

We have even made businessmen return money that they have looted from the Exchequer in the past.

A person who steals a chicken might go to jail … but a person who steals millions is welcome to be a member of the Federation Council or the Duma.

Corruption in the kingdom is so great that not more than 10 percent of the taxes collected ever reach the treasury.

I would never, ever trade any campaign donation - that's absurd - for some type of favor to anyone.

I champion a real campaign to tackle the rampant corruption that is draining Saudi resources, both financial and human.

My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

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 two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

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.

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

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

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

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.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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.