It's not just SPENDING, it's not just TAXES, it's not just CORRUPTION, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the REPUBLICANS and the Democrats.

What we can do in SINGAPORE MAY not be doable elsewhere. Some things you KNOW you need: you want efficient GOVERNMENT, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you MUST educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.

The ORIGINAL communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of FAMILY linkages, and CORRUPTION, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still FOUND in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even SINGAPORE.

The TWO greatest PRIORITIES for my GOVERNMENT are tackling TAX evasion and corruption.

The Bank had NEVER used the word 'CORRUPTION' at all until I GOT there, and the reason for that was, as the GENERAL counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell MEMBERS it is GETTING very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated CONSISTENT drum beat of a CORRUPTION of the democratic process.

Scandals, corruption, PARTISAN infighting - no wonder people have lost FAITH in Congress. I SAY ENOUGH is enough.

What saddens me is the corruption of YOUTH and beauty, and the LOSS of SOUL, which is only replaced by money.

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the DEVASTATED economies. All the vapid cases of CORRUPTION, grand theft, and NAKED plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their WAKE trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and HUMAN debris.

No PEN can GIVE an adequate DESCRIPTION of the all-pervading CORRUPTION produced by SLAVERY.

The POOR don't live in FUNCTIONAL market economies as the rest of US do, but in political economies where corruption and BROKEN SYSTEMS extend from local government to moneylenders.

Public CORRUPTION is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally ELECTED, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the HEART of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our DEMOCRACY.