Misappropriation of Funds Quotes

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever.

The Mexican oil and gas monopoly, Pemex, literally fuels corruption.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

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

Corruption in Nigeria is blocking development even though they have all this oil wealth.

Find the corrupt officials and then prosecute them and send them to prison!

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.

We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.

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

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Thou shalt not purloin pension funds.

I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

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

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?

For every amount the state collected [in taxes], the mandarin collectors took twice as much for themselves.

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

If you look at the number of aldermen who have been prosecuted and found liable of federal crimes over the years... the common thread among all of them is doing something in the exercise of aldermanic prerogative or privilege.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

I must tell you something about the Ku Klux, they are raging on the other side of the River. They have whipped several white men, whipped and killed several Negroes. They whipped Colonel Huggins, the Superintendent of the free schools nearly to death, and everybody rejoiced when they heard it, for everybody hated him. He squandered the public money, buying pianofortes, organs, sofas, and furniture for the Negro School house in Aberdeen. The people are taxed beyond endurance. The Ku Klux gave him seventy lashes, and then gave him ten days to leave the country. he left and went to Jackson. There was a Regiment of Militia came into Aberdeen Friday. They are sent here to put down the Ku Klux. Huggins has come back with the Militia, but I wouldn't give a straw for his life, for he will be killed. It is the opinion of most everybody there will be war. the Yankees coming here will make the Negroes more insolent. With Country full of Yankees, things are going too far, for the free whites of the South are determined not to put up with it.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

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.

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