Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.