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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. -- Jonathan Swift
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. -- Martin Scorsese
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. -- Jacob Bronowski
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. -- Ali Khamenei
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that. -- Michele Bachmann
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. -- Barry Eisler
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama. -- Asif Kapadia
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. -- Lee R. Raymond
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
When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle. -- Stan Jones
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound. -- Bradley A. Smith
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption. -- Morena Baccarin
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. -- Saul Alinsky
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. -- Andrew Thomas
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. -- Evgeny Morozov
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
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. -- Mitch Landrieu
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global. -- Ted Sarandos
For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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
One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption. -- George Brandis
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. -- B. W. Powe
Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity.It also shows us about politics and corruption; and that's a fact. -- Toba Beta
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Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one. -- Emma Goldman
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will. -- Criss Jami

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