Corruption Quotes

747 Corruption quotes by 558 unique authors

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry… — Paul Krugman
All one great big lie. — Bernard Madoff
It looked incredibly credible! — Nicola Horlick
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. — Robert Zoellick
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view. — Harry Markopolos
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. — Harry Markopolos
I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke… — Harry Markopolos
The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet. — George W. Bush
If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law. — Kenneth Lay
It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail. — Bernard Madoff
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted… — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Money you haven't earned is not good for you. — Robert Maxwell
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long… — Robert Maxwell
If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a… — Robert Maxwell
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. — Marcus Aurelius
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls… — Philip Gourevitch
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot… — Guido von List
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter
The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of… — T. B. Joshua

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