Associating with corrupt people makes you subject to suspicion.

I know that your instinct is to do whatever you can to earn the good graces of everyone you can, but that is also the impulse that will rob you of your time, your energy and your sanity.

Busy is what happens when you’re at the mercy of someone else’s schedule.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe.

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

That graft and corruption are found in governmental enterprises is a fact, but that they are more prevalent there than in business cannot be demonstrated.

I've been thinking a lot about it lately, about the corruption here in America, how everything becomes big business, how everything becomes diseased. Everything.

Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.

Guilt is real, it is serious, but when it becomes also a fashion, there is corruption.

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted — or rather tend to be corrupted — by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.

Corruption rewards its favorites with jobs.

Corruption’s a lot of fun, Em. Are you sure you wouldn’t like to try it?

We’ve got our hands full.

The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.