Mike Pence Quotes

We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

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.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

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

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

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

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.

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

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 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.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

The United Nations is in need of reform. The Security Council reflects the world exactly as it was 60 years ago—not today.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

We're doing a lot about corruption... it takes a long time and we are doing the right measures. It took 20 years for the system under successive military governments to become so corrupt, so it will take time to bring it under control.

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.

Democracy is political corruption which must be effectively done away with.