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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
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. -- Newt Gingrich
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. -- Noah Webster
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. -- Ted Nugent
It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. -- Sherrod Brown
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots. -- George Weah
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens. -- Marcy Kaptur
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. -- Pratibha Patil
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. -- Richard Flanagan
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations. -- Dambisa Moyo
Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy. -- James Comey
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. -- George Papandreou
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. -- Matt Taibbi
Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses. -- Amy Jo Martin
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. -- Carl Paladino
It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. -- Darrell Issa
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption. -- Julian Assange
No government functions without the grease of corruption. -- Carlos Fuentes
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. -- George Papandreou
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. -- G. Edward Griffin
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. -- Milton Friedman
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption. -- Mario Monti
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions -- Ibrahim Ali
The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not? -- Tenzin Palmo
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers. -- Malachy McCourt
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. -- George Washington
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. -- Thomas Paine
Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here. -- Tony Garza
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 that pays the price. -- Ashraf Ghani
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. -- Thomas Jefferson
It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue. -- Stephen Harper
The bigger the government, the greater the corruption -- Dennis Prager

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