Best government & corruption Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

People Self Government Desire Nations Interest Pay Attention Conflict Taxes Highest Angry Property Corruption Income Income Tax Incompetent Conflict Of Interest Albany Property Taxes

Author:Carl Paladino

“Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.”

Government Corruption Agency Enterprise Government Agencies

Author:George Papandreou

“It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.”

Country Government Fighting Responsibility Drug Gains Trade Corruption Administration Afghanistan New Government

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.”

Government Culture Party Issues Republican Disease Highest Sick Corruption Dirty Sat Toms Delay Symptoms Dirty Money

Author:Howard Dean

“My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.”

People Government Form Used White Deals Leader Corruption Lists Gaps Collars Plugs White Collar

Author:Jakaya Kikwete

“We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.”

Government Form Fighting Pay Ordinary Sick Tired Unity Corruption Pay The Price Afghan National Unity

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.”

Government Sells Corruption Favors

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”

Government Function Corruption Grease

Book:The Eagle's Throne: A Novel

Source: The Eagle's Throne: A Novel

“The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.”

Country Government Unions Corruption Employee Telling The Truth Government Employees

Author:Newt Gingrich

“My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.”

Country Government Situation Election Slavery Democratic Vices Corruption Missions Organize Civilians Bad Situations General Elections

Author:Idi Amin

“[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.”

Government Strong Effects Corruption Cheating Spheres Surprising Correlation Government Corruption

Author:Julian Sanchez

“I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.”

World Feels Looks Government Political Certain Principles Discipline Honor Connections England Corruption Ministers Look Up Animated Assembly Parliamentary Parliamentary Government

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.”

Men Persons Body Hands Government Lasts Abuse Corruption Followers Resorts

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.”

Government Form Corruption Regulation Efficiency Intrusion Market Efficiency

Author:Milton Friedman

“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”

Way Giving Dream Hands Government Poor Rich Huge Letting Go Resources Rivers Lays Corruption Enterprise Cynical Monument Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy

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