Checks and balances Quote by Khalid A. Al-Falih

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

— Julian Assange

Unhampered corruption breeds more corruption.

— Tom Fitton

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

— Ha-Joon Chang

[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is…

— Julian Sanchez

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

— Arvind Kejriwal

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

— Tan Cheng Bock

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

— Milton Friedman

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

— Theodore Roosevelt

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

— Jacob K. Javits

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

— Ronald Frame

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

— Alan Greenspan