Corruption is a cancer on the body of development.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
The squandering of the public money sinks into comparative insignificance as a temptation to corruption when compared with the squandering of the public lands.
Administrators are another curious consequence of a bureaucracy which has forgotten its reason for being
I don't think the approach is to simply give them [the Indian tribes] money, because too much money has disappeared in Indian country, too much has been mismanaged. The history of Indian country is the disappearance of money.
Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.
The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders who trusted them, which had much more substantial consequences in the form of excessive fees and the promotion - as the market moved into the stratosphere - of technology funds and new economy funds which were soon to collapse.
States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
Unfortunately, Lifeline, known in some circles as the 'Obamaphone' program, is plagued by waste, fraud, and abuse.
Corruption is a punitive tax on those who can least afford it.
In a world where socialism has disappeared, it can still be found lurking in the boardrooms of failing and bad-risk investment companies … that yearn to spread their losses across the backs of long-suffering taxpayers.
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
I've been charged with misappropriation of funds or misuse of two types of funds.
People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
We have three people in the State Legislature facing trial. Four of the last seven governors have gone to jail. And we’re a fiscal train wreck.
Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.
A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
