Daniel Ayalon Quotes

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

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

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

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

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.

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.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

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.

In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.

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.

We need reform. We need more transparency between those who lobby us and ourselves in the Congress.

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

Business does not go where there is corruption and the rule of law does not apply.

Democracy requires a strong civil service—government employees who are sufficiently protected from random political influences to carry out the law in a disinterested fashion.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

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

Where there has been a major, major corruption scandal, that was the catalyst for very specific reform.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

We are attacking corruption and every corrupt person—no matter how important he is—will go to jail.