People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt.

Arundhati Roy
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Corruption is the second biggest risk to our financial system. It pays to know if your friends and associates are as pure as the driven snow, as you would like them to be.

Source: The Checkbook And The Cruise Missile: Conversations With Arundhati Roy

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