Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Corruption in the kingdom is so great that not more than 10 percent of the taxes collected ever reach the treasury.

No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences.

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 a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

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.

We do have endemic corruption, but most of it is not political.

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

We've had corruption -- corruption doesn't exist only in Africa. Where there is a corruptee, there is a corrupter. Right? It's always a two-way process.

Our anti-corruption systems have inherently and intently been kept flawed.

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

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.

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

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

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

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.

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

Corruption may be one way of surmounting traditional laws or bureaucratic regulations which hamper economic expansion.

In Nigeria, corruption remains a way of life, especially in government and business.

Corruption is like a ball of snow; when once set a rolling, it must increase.

Behind a mask of apparent openness and accountability to which once-trusted accountancy firms and business analysts were willing collaborators, a raft of corrupt practices has undermined the livelihoods and expectations of millions.