Illegal Gains Quotes

The Mexican oil and gas monopoly, Pemex, literally fuels corruption.

The stock market is a racket. Those guys are crooks.

Not all politicians have a nexus with Veerappan.

Find the corrupt officials and then prosecute them and send them to prison!

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Organized crime has a corrupting influence on all Bulgarian institutions including the government, parliament and judiciary. In an attempt to maintain their influence regardless of who is in power, organized crime figures dominate all the major political parties. As these figures have expanded into legitimate businesses, they have attempted—with some success—to buy their way into the corridors of power….

… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

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

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

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

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.