Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

Corruption isn't a natural disaster,

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there's no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

Government leaders have to address corruption so that aid is freed up for its intended purpose.

Corruption eats away at the public's trust in the medical community. People have a right to expect that the drugs they depend on are real. They have a right to think that doctors place a patient's interests above profits. And most of all, they have a right to believe that the health care industry is there to cure, not to kill.

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.