Lalu Prasad Yadav Quotes

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

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.

As you fight corruption, it fights back.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Never by my consent shall these rebels gain by this war increased political power, and come back here to wield that political power

Nobody is immune to corruption. The difference is in how the society responds to corruption. Are the corrupt in jail as they are in Israel and most democracies. Or are they leaders in the government as in Palestine under the PLO.

We need reform. We need more transparency between those who lobby us and ourselves in the Congress.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

On streets where statesmen once strolled, a never-ending stream of money now changes hands—tying the hands of those elected to lead.

Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.

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

Friendship is the most corrupting influence in politics.

For Louisiana politicians, bribery is an occupational hazard. When I took the oath of office I didn't take an oath of poverty.

I think the government … has a very different interest. Usually in fact the opposite of what the people's interest is.

Sometimes I think that before we set up war crimes tribunals we should set up Corruption Inquiries and Commissions as corruption always is present in these states.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.