Karen Mills Quotes

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

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

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

The problem with having an all-encompassing privacy law … is the protection it gives to those who don’t merit protection. [Corrupt officials]

Corruption is the exchange of public benefits for private gain.

Ukraine gives corruption a bad name…. The Ukrainian politicians have ripped off everything in the country that was not nailed down, and then they turned to the stuff that was nailed down.

We need to close the loopholes that allowed large corporations to abuse the Paycheck Protection Program.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Nobody is going to call me 'Sergio 15,' someone who takes a 15 percent cut from every contract. We aren't stealing ... way too much money was stolen in the past.

Corruption is a very lucrative business.

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

One mode of the misappropriation of public funds is avoided when appointments to office, instead of being the rewards of partisan activity, are awarded to those whose efficiency promises a fair return of work for the compensation paid to them.

Aid corrupts.