Corruption Quote by Paddy Ashdown Download Open image “People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.” — Paddy Ashdown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption People Politician Politics Want
“When it comes to politicians, the question is not ‘Are they corrupt?’, but rather ‘How corrupt are they?’.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“People who say that everyone knows politicians lie and deceive and spy and bribe are only giving themselves an excuse for not getting involved… — Daniel Domscheit-Berg Copy Share Image
I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong. — Masuji Ibuse Copy Share Image
Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics. — Haider al-Abadi Copy Share Image
Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them. — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is. — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think all politicians are corrupt. You'll arrest me? It's my freedom to state my opinion. — Rakii Retondo Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile.… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
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… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
