149 Corrupt Quotes for You to Enjoy

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll. Ann Powers

Relationship Business Free Elvis Insane Possibly Corrupt Some Totally Something Colonel Parker Wrong Idea Most Identity Sort Partnerships Rock Rock-N-Roll His Roll Intense Manager Used Certainly Lucrative Ever Extent

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything. Antonin Scalia

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt. Antonin Scalia

You Man Power Young White White House Corrupt Tends House Young Man

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. Aravind Adiga

People Money First Politician Politicians Relentlessly Collect India Corrupt Silent Indians Seeking Tend Clean Sons Supposedly Cliche First Thing Audience Hear Mock The First Thing Suspicion Dishonest Regard Grin Who Dad Thing Honest

Full statehood in Delhi is a larger issue as compared to anti-corruption. For, only when the Delhi government gets its anti-corruption bureau back will it get the power of suspension and vigilance inquiries on corrupt officers of different departments of the government. That is how you can curb the corruption. Atishi

Government You Corruption Will Power Back Corrupt Delhi Only How Issue Curb Get Officers Bureau Departments Gets Suspension Different Full Vigilance Compared Larger

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it. Bennett Miller

Education Politics Relationship Creativity Money Control Everything Corrupt Tendency Almost Journalism Between Almost Everything Untouched Up Very Uneasy Susceptible Arts Anything Whether Certainly Hardly

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt. Cenk Uygur

Party Find Corrupt Overall Democratic Democratic Party Level

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are. Charles Dance

Politics You Matter Earth Corrupt Most Where Profession

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. Charles Edward Merriam

City Corrupt Only Chicago America Unique

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. Chetan Bhagat

Education Business Heart Problems Believe Okay Corrupt No Problems Becomes Am Commercialization While Capitalist Profitable

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. Clayton M. Christensen

Technology World Prosperity Internet Ways Prominent Out India Corrupt Prosperous Industry Because Geography Very Conduit Where Information Information Technology Competing

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt. Clayton M. Christensen

What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans. Craig Mazin

Me Evil Other Else Ways System Corrupt Some About Something More More Than Anything Because Arrive Yes Very Than Did Soviet Anything Happened Anything Else Story Us Planet Many Compelled Deeply Universal Humans

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations. Dambisa Moyo

Time Army Too Aid Spend Despotic System Corrupt Demands Catering Inept Courting Continue Africa Places Regimes Organizations Who Many

Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process. David Limbaugh

Constitution Fight President Back Monstrosity Reckless Spending Tyrannical Obama Obamacare Corrupt Rise Horrified Both Outraged Through Drove Like Issue Were His Up Itself American Endless Legislative Legislative Process Crammed Process Which Them Manner

The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011. David Petraeus

Government Cause Leader Increasing Sectarian Corrupt Unraveling Combat Forces Iraq Iraqi Conduct Authoritarian Departure After Last

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders. Denise Dresser

Government Party National Action Way Ways Corrupt Leaders Supporting Itself Oil Which Worker Union Many

I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting. Denise Dresser

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars. Donella Meadows

Jokes Stupid Politicians President Our Corrupt Pentagon About Seem Given Highest He Come Likeable Make Bidder Dollars Sale Up Campaigns Expect Tax Vice Vice President Tax Dollars Mean Ask Use

Corrupt Quotes

No more corrupt quotes