Larry Diamond Quotes

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Without legal and political institutions that control corruption, pro-growth policies will be ineffective.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.

The government of England is one of the wisest in Europe, because there is a body there that examines this government continually and that continually examines itself.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

Nobody is immune to corruption. The difference is in how the society responds to corruption. Are the corrupt in jail as they are in Israel and most democracies. Or are they leaders in the government as in Palestine under the PLO.

An obvious precaution against the corruption of power is to divide the government.

The United States owe it to the world as well as to themselves to let the example of one government at least protect against the corruption which prevails.