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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

~Bess Myerson

Topics: Accomplice Corruption Crime Frequently Indifference Our Own

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Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Aid Common Corruption Criticize Hear Most Reasons Views

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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

~Bob Etheridge

Topics: Clear Corruption Highest Highest Levels Leadership Levels Office Public Public Office Rampant Republican Sign Supposed Trust

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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

Topics: Abound Accomplishes Asking Both Campaigns Candidates Channels Continue Corruption Financial Fund Nothing Other Political Problems Public Reality Seek Support Through

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There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

~Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Topics: Between Corruption Does Empowering Go Interesting One Way Power Way

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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

~Bruce Kent

Topics: Again Any Awful Christianity Corruption Ever Feature Manipulation Organization Part Power Present Then Which Worst

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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Adult All The World Closing Constantly Corruption Decay Down Institutions Itself Responsibility Routine Trying World

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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Company Corruption Defy Disease Failing Fighting Hardest Indeed Just Makes Marriage Needed Problems Rebuilding Remedies Surgery Tackling Things Whether Worse

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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

Topics: About Angry Attention Cesspool Conflicts Corruption Desires Dysfunctional Getting Government Highest Income Incompetent Interests Less Nation Our Paying Pays People Property Taxes

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When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

~Caroline Lawrence

Topics: About Against Because Black Black And White Corruption Cowboy Dangerous Fighting Films Genre Hero Likes Lone Old Someone Story Talks Think Those Western White Wonderful World You Your

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