{"quotes":[{"text":"Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["affluence","affluent","africa","african-leaders","change","change-makers","change-the-world","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corruption","food-for-thought","govern","governance","government","greed","greediness","greedy","greedy-leaders","hungry","i-am-rich","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","mission","money","penury","personal-development","political","political-leaders","politics","poor","poor-people","poverty","rich","rich-man","riches","self-improvement","thief","thieves","wealth","wealthy"],"id":54920,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety \u0026 Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.","author":"Steven 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is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad-intention","bad-people","character","corrupt-leaders","corruption","crime","crimes","highhandedness","michael-bassey-johnson","misdeed","poverty","selfishness","tyranny"],"id":287638,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous favors to the corporations that funded their election campaigns.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["campaign","campaign-contributions","campaign-finance","campaign-promises","campaigns","choose","corporations","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corrupt-politics","corrupted","corruption","corruption-politics","corruption","election","favors","funded","masses","masses","most","numerous","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politician","politicians","politicians","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","rather","represent","return","vote","voter","voters"],"id":297217,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The corrupt begat corruption.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["begat","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corrupt-politics","corruption","corruption-politics","corruption"],"id":324723,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["affairs","blue","corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corrupt-politics","corrupted","corruption","corruption-politics","corruption","fire","firing","firing-employees","incompetent","internal","light","lighting","number","officer","officers","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prosecuting","sheriff","starts","substantial","system","systemic-failure","systemic-racism","until","up"],"id":361005,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["corrupt","corrupt-leaders","corrupt-politics","corruption","corruption-politics","corruption","equally","law","legal","legal-system","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politician","politicians","politics","politics","politics-science","protect","protection","protective","system","works"],"id":424202,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.","author":"Steven 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