{"quotes":[{"text":"Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blackmail","bribery","e-mail","extortion","intimidation","madmen","madness","outlaw","ransom","slanderer","threat"],"id":25234,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.","author":"Tahir Shah","tags":["africa","bribery","bureaucracy","pride"],"id":72467,"author_id":"Tahir+Shah"},{"text":"Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["bribe","bribery","corruption"],"id":92292,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.","author":"George Washington","tags":["bribery"],"id":107126,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"Didn’t we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?","author":"Ray Bourhis","tags":["bribery","greed","society-problem"],"id":122831,"author_id":"Ray+Bourhis"},{"text":"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. They get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["bribery","corporate-ethics","corporations","corporatism","corruption","government","government-corruption","inside-job","politics","washington-dc","washington-dc-politics"],"id":127018,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.","author":"St. Gregory","tags":["bribery"],"id":133380,"author_id":"St.+Gregory"},{"text":"Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["bribery","business","corruption","courage-to-say-no","gifts","integrity","leadership"],"id":142375,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.","author":"Karin Tidbeck","tags":["bribery","equality"],"id":181251,"author_id":"Karin+Tidbeck"},{"text":"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["african-leaders","anas-ayemeyaw-anas","anti-corruption","bad-leaders","bribery","bribery-corruption","conflicts","continent","corruption","country","destroy","destroy-a-nation","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","money","nation","nations","personal-development","pockets","political","political-leaders","political-perversion","political-pockets","politics","say-not-to-corruption","self-improvement","steal","thief","thieves","violence","war"],"id":214915,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}