Joe Clark Quotes

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.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; when once set a rolling, it must increase.

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

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.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

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

Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

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.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Corruption exists everywhere.

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

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

Honest Graft

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

Corruption can be a lubricant reducing the friction between new elites and old elites in a period of rapid change.

Mr. Ten Percent

Wouldn't a judge be a "rotter," if he got an appointment for the Supreme Court bench from a district leader for 14 years at a salary of $25,000 a year and then just said "Thank you"?

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any great length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their public duties. Their integrity may be proof against improper considerations immediately addressed to themselves, but they are apt to acquire a habit of looking with indifference upon the public interests and of tolerating conduct from which an unpracticed man would revolt. Office is considered as a species of property, and government rather as a means of promoting individual interests than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.