When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All my life I have fought corruption.
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.
It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.
I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.