18 Bribe Quotes for You to Enjoy

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville

Day Money Will Congress Until Discovers American Endure Republic Public American Republic Bribe

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. Edward Coke

Great Fault Though Small Bribe

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption. Jacob Weisberg

Corruption Witness Greedy Other Insider Only Could Shameless He Taking Trading Ambitious Endanger Where Which Forms Racket Bribe Toils Exposure Creatively Shrinks Mundane

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department. Aman Mojadidi

Work Corruption Money Police Car Through Instead Checkpoint Police Department Looked Police Officer Fake Up Offered Officer Behalf Department Afghanistan Stopped Them Asking Apologized Bribe Street Set

My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This was completely unnecessary, as I always got A's, and they bought me books all the time anyway, and we all knew it. Celeste Ng

Buy Time Me Book Parents Books One Book Unnecessary Would Knew Bought Always Got Report Anyway Straight Used Bribe Card

The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling. Clive Thompson

Character You Resume World Will Few Gamers Speeds Way Log Rested Temporarily More Outside Computers Developers Days Also Discovered Off Up Mode Going Behind Warcraft Turning Your Bribe Humanitarian Leveling Playing

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other. Ehud Olmert

Truth Other Took Never Bribe

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe. Gautam Adani

Government You Give Dealing Does Mean Bribe

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. Graham Greene

Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA. James Comey

Business Way Became Doing FIFA Bribe Payments Illegal

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense. James Surowiecki

Business Corruption Seen Unpleasant Some Allowed Part Attention Countries Until Doing Were Overseas Western Western Countries Expense Little Little Attention Paid Bribe Bribery Businesses European European Countries Even Necessary

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life. Shaffi Mather

Life Time Man Battle World Tough Gives Simply Get Subsistence Just Common Where Common Man Modern-Day Bribe Premium Pays

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. Thomas Gray

Too Had He Proud Making Method Poor Fortune Bribe

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder

Marriage Think She Make Housekeeper Bribe

While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. Whitney Tilson

Government Best Corruption World National Military Rampant Our Unlike Once Plenty Systems Parks Never Countries Always Judicial Been Effective Efficient National Parks Improvement Quite Where While Room Bribe Actually

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society. Yemi Osinbajo

Government People Nation Society Our Resources Ministers Stealing Attacks Taking Judges Existence Authority May Whether Persons Bribe Whoever

I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them. Usain Bolt

Me Clever Out Tried Eat Someone Only Lays Take Supplements He House Sure Chef Makes Pills Hired Been Forget Front Them Cooked Bribe Team Who Round Hardest

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