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I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Corruption exists everywhere.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.