Alas Quote by James L. Buckley

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of…

— Thomas Frank

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who…

— Gregory Bateson

You can separate corruption from politics only when democracy becomes government of the people, for the people and by the people.

— Vikrant Parsai

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

— Joe Biden

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

— Anonymous

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

— Eduard Shevardnadze

Corruption spreads faster than cancer among the people in power and position; it strengthens itself by emergence of unholy alliances and criminal gangs. In…

— T Joseph Benziger

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

— Peter Ustinov

“The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away…

— Edmund Burke

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very…

— Scott Peters

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche