Nguyen Tan Dung Quotes

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

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

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Corruption in the kingdom is so great that not more than 10 percent of the taxes collected ever reach the treasury.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

There's corruption in many parts of the world.

Corrupt bureaucrats and cops ought to dismissed or compulsorily retired from service, as they are a drain on the service. Their performance must be vigorously assessed.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

I've never taken a bung, and I've never been approached to take one.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.