Pratyusha Banerjee Quotes

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Corruption is rampant in Pakistan and the government’s failure to control the practice has made it almost impossible to reverse the trend.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Palestinians are painfully aware that their government is rife with corruption.

There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in its abuses.

We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

Politics is awful.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.