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“The increasingly baroque fall-out from the BAE-Saudi case has opened Britain up to a series of attacks that harm its standing as an anti-corruption advocate and as a place to do business.”
Michael Peel writing in the Financial Times on the BAE affair.
Financial Times, UK; 22 January 2007.
According to an African Union peer review of South Africa, South Africans "feel betrayed, regarding corruption as a negation of democratic gains after a long period of struggle".
Quoted in The Guardian, UK; 29 January 2007.
“Absolute power corrupts, and the Chinese Communist party has become one of the most corrupt organisations the world has ever witnessed.”
Will Hutton, The Guardian, UK; 8 January 2007.
“According to the daily newspaper La Stampa, about 100,000 public servants or representatives in Italy are either on trial or under investigation in connection with alleged criminal offences.”
The Guardian, UK; 21 December 2006.
“The signal that there is something wrong with British politics is that there is so little corruption and too few real scandals.”
Daniel Finkelstein writing in the The Times of London.
The Times, UK; 24 January 2007.
“One of the major changes the year wrought was that it is now difficult for the average citizen to look at the various institutions that form the building blocks of this society with much confidence.”
Herb Keinon writing in the Jeruselem Post.
Jerusalem Post, Israel; 4 January 2007.
“Part of your promise to the citizens of St. Peters was honest government. You flat-out lied. You didn't complete your campaign promise … You abused your position of trust ... to steal, to fatten your own pocket.”
U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey sentencing Shawn Brown, former mayor of St Peters.
St Louis Post-Dispatch, USA; 30 January 2007.
“International NGOs like Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International and George Soro’s Open Society network have the power to change agendas.”
Timothy Garton Ash, writing about power and Davos, in The Guardian, UK; 24 January 2007.