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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. ↗

— Ajay Devgan

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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. ↗

— Bob Etheridge

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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