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"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
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"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."

"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."

"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."

"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."

"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions."

"As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process."

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

"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
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