Anna Wintour Quotes

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

The Clintons engage routinely in corrupt practices, mixing their political power with their nonprofit work to make themselves rich, while not standing up for the little guy.

In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity - the Donald J. Trump Foundation - to buy a six-foot-tall portrait of himself during a fundraiser auction at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

The hanky-panky in public service that really matters is about money and not sex.

New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cash operation: No matter what the stated humanitarian goals of the Clinton Foundation, every fiber and sinew of the organization is wrapped in self-dealing, self-enrichment, fraud, and corruption.

Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

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.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The Government of Afghanistan could best be understood, not as a government at all, but as a vertically integrated criminal organization whose care activity was not in fact exercising the functions of a state, but of rather extracting resources for personal gain.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

We shouldn’t be lending money to corrupt officials. We should be guarded in our generosity.

When you've got a guy who's in position to influence who gets what, the potential is always there for corruption.

The assumption has to be that members of Congress are, like eunuchs in a harem, physically incapable of a conflict of interest.

I don't think that anybody is worse than a public official who sells his office and corrupts others.

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