Laura Miller Quotes

Sometimes I think that before we set up war crimes tribunals we should set up Corruption Inquiries and Commissions as corruption always is present in these states.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

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 can be no compromise regarding corruption.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

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.

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

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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

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.

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

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.

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

Democracies can no longer tolerate bribery, fraud and dishonesty, especially as such practices disproportionately hurt the poor.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The endless money chase has given the appearance of corrupting government.

Tolerance of corruption, explicit and implicit, has made it impossible to govern…. We need absolute transparency of all the assets of government officials.

We've had corruption -- corruption doesn't exist only in Africa. Where there is a corruptee, there is a corrupter. Right? It's always a two-way process.

Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.