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I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
Every institution, including the judiciary has its share of black sheep and corrupt judges.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
For Clinton, I don't see redemption. She is a corrupt political operative of the worst kind.
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
When I used to fight against the corrupt system, my wife ran the house and my mother supported me.
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.
I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.
On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.
I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United States.
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.