Corruption Quotes
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Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.
Ha-Joon Chang, in Bad Samaritans (2008), Prologue, p. xxv 
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More Corruption Quotes
I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?
heydar aliyev— Answering the question of Jeffrey Goldberg "What sort of corruption do you see in America?" October 4, 1998, The New York Times.
THE CORRUPT FEAR US · THE HONEST SUPPORT US · THE HEROIC JOIN US .
— Anonymous motto, used in many placards, quoted at Anonymousuk.org
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one
— Edmund Burke, In letter to the to the Sheriffs of Bristol, (4 April 1777)
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America."
— Giannina Braschi, "United States of Banana," (2011).
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are of an immeasurable length. They spread ev'rywhere. And the dew that drops from thence hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune (1613; published 1647), Act III, scene 3.
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
— Theodore Roosevelt, address at the Corner-stone laying of the Office Building of House of Representatives (April 14, 1906).
