If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.