Corruption is a cancer that eats away at the roots of society.

Personally I don’t think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Corruption is a cancer that must be eradicated from the roots. We are committed to this cause.

We will not tolerate any form of corruption. Transparency and accountability will be the cornerstone of my administration.

We need to fight corruption, but we must also be wary of those who use anti-corruption campaigns to pursue their own goals.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Two big challenges we face today – corruption and ‘Parivaarvaad’ or nepotism. Corruption hollowing the country like a termite, we’ve to fight it.

Corruption is a barrier to progress.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whenever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it.

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

War! It is purification, liberation, an enormous hope … The victory of Germany will be a paradox, nay, a wonder: a victory of the soul over numbers … The German soul is opposed to the pacifist ideal of civilization, for is not peace the element, of civil corruption?

I’ve been saying for years now that we’ve got to root out corruption wherever it exists, and it’s why we’ve passed and I’ve signed ethics reforms in the state of Illinois.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

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

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

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together – the incompetence of all of their governments… The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what’s the difference? It’s corrupt! It’s the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there’s a missile coming out

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

I will not allow injustice or foul play, but if someone is caught practicing corruption if I receive a commission, we will put him against the wall. And we will give the order to shoot!

When the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of maturer age are already sunk into corruption.