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Youve heard me say a lot of times, hes worried about corruption, ive released 21 years of my tax returns -- [have] him release some of his. – Hunter Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. I think it's been well documented in the Financial Times, in Politico, in The Economist, in the Washington Examiner, even on CBS, that the prime minister of Ukraine, the interior minister, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, the head of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption League, all meddled in the election on social media and otherwise. – John Kennedy	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Did Mick Mulvaney also mention to me, in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server ? Absolutely. No question about that. But that's it. That's why we held up the money. – Mick Mulvaney	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Rudy is a great crime fighter, corruption fighter, probably the best in 50 years. When he was here, and also when he was at the Donald Trump attorney in Southern District, he was phenomenal. Rudy is a great person. And I think that maybe the press isn't treating Rudy very well, and I think that's unfair. But Rudy was a great mayor and a great crime fighter. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are marching for all the injustices in this country - we thought the problem was the war, but it's really corruption. – David Baron	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Elizabeth Warren is the candidate we need to beat Donald Trump in 2020, root out corruption in 2021 and make big structural change to bring relief to working families all across the country. – Katie Porter	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is a growing intolerance by the American people of public corruption, an intolerance reflected in the willingness to come forward and report abuse of public office. – Jennifer Boone	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
In hindsight, I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma,' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Hunter Biden, i saw them as very different -- the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable. – Kurt Volker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, i saw them as very different. The former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable. – Kurt Volker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Thus, perhaps, it was not surprising, that when our anti-corruption efforts got in the way of a desire for profit or power, Ukrainians who preferred to play by the old, corrupt rules sought to remove me. What continues to amaze me is that they found Americans willing to partner with them and, working together, they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a U.S. ambassador. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Ambassador Yovanovitch	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was surprised the requirement was so specific and concrete, while we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel. – State Department aide David Holmes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
While we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel. – State Department aide David Holmes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was surprised the requirement was so specific and concrete, while we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel. – State Department aide David Holmes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The question before us is not whether Donald Trump could recall an American ambassador with a stellar reputation for fighting corruption in Ukraine, but why would Donald Trump want to ? the powers of the presidency are immense, but they are not absolute and can not be used for a corrupt purpose. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. – Marie Yovanovitch	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The allegation is that Donald J. Trump withheld aid to Ukraine unless the Ukrainiangovernment investigated Joe Biden and Hunter Biden for corruption, the problem with that allegation is that its not true. The aid was delivered to the Ukrainian government and there was no investigation of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. – Sean Hannity	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, where I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. – Gordon Sondland	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The peaceful demonstrations and expressions of national unity over the last 13 days have sent a clear message. The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption. – Mike Pompeo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Not only is this an about-face of Brett Bruen policy, but it also plays directly into Russia's hand, russia uses this corruption to manipulate events in Ukraine. Their argument all along was that the US is no better than they are. And President Trump has essentially proven them right. – Brett Bruen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our delegation emphasized the central importance of combating the corruption which endangers security and undermines the Afghan people's ability achieve a stable and prosperous future, we underscored that the women of Afghanistan must be at the table for reconciliation talks. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What is happening in the streets expresses people's pain, but generalizing corruption (charges) against everyone carries big injustice. – Michel Aoun	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Youve heard me say a lot of times, hes worried about corruption, ive released 21 years of my tax returns -- [have] him release some of his.

– Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. I think it's been well documented in the Financial Times, in Politico, in The Economist, in the Washington Examiner, even on CBS, that the prime minister of Ukraine, the interior minister, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, the head of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption League, all meddled in the election on social media and otherwise.

– John Kennedy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Did Mick Mulvaney also mention to me, in the past, the corruption related to the DNC server ? Absolutely. No question about that. But that's it. That's why we held up the money.

– Mick Mulvaney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Rudy is a great crime fighter, corruption fighter, probably the best in 50 years. When he was here, and also when he was at the Donald Trump attorney in Southern District, he was phenomenal. Rudy is a great person. And I think that maybe the press isn't treating Rudy very well, and I think that's unfair. But Rudy was a great mayor and a great crime fighter.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are marching for all the injustices in this country - we thought the problem was the war, but it's really corruption.

– David Baron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Elizabeth Warren is the candidate we need to beat Donald Trump in 2020, root out corruption in 2021 and make big structural change to bring relief to working families all across the country.

– Katie Porter

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is a growing intolerance by the American people of public corruption, an intolerance reflected in the willingness to come forward and report abuse of public office.

– Jennifer Boone

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In hindsight, I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma,' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Hunter Biden, i saw them as very different -- the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable.

– Kurt Volker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, i saw them as very different. The former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable.

– Kurt Volker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Thus, perhaps, it was not surprising, that when our anti-corruption efforts got in the way of a desire for profit or power, Ukrainians who preferred to play by the old, corrupt rules sought to remove me. What continues to amaze me is that they found Americans willing to partner with them and, working together, they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a U.S. ambassador.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I do not understand Mr Giuliani's motives for attacking me, what I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Ambassador Yovanovitch

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was surprised the requirement was so specific and concrete, while we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel.

– State Department aide David Holmes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel.

– State Department aide David Holmes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was surprised the requirement was so specific and concrete, while we had advised our Ukrainian counterparts to voice a commitment to following the rule of law and generally to investigating credible corruption allegations, this was a demand that Volodymyr Zelensky personally commit to a specific investigation of President Trump's political rival on a cable news channel.

– State Department aide David Holmes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The question before us is not whether Donald Trump could recall an American ambassador with a stellar reputation for fighting corruption in Ukraine, but why would Donald Trump want to ? the powers of the presidency are immense, but they are not absolute and can not be used for a corrupt purpose.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I do not understand Mr. Giuliani's motives for attacking me, nor can I offer an opinion on whether Rudy Giuliani believed the allegations Rudy Giuliani spread about me, clearly, no one at State Department did. What I can say is that Rudy Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

– Marie Yovanovitch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The allegation is that Donald J. Trump withheld aid to Ukraine unless the Ukrainiangovernment investigated Joe Biden and Hunter Biden for corruption, the problem with that allegation is that its not true. The aid was delivered to the Ukrainian government and there was no investigation of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.

– Sean Hannity

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I now recall speaking individually with Mr. Yermak, where I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks.

– Gordon Sondland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The peaceful demonstrations and expressions of national unity over the last 13 days have sent a clear message. The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Not only is this an about-face of Brett Bruen policy, but it also plays directly into Russia's hand, russia uses this corruption to manipulate events in Ukraine. Their argument all along was that the US is no better than they are. And President Trump has essentially proven them right.

– Brett Bruen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our delegation emphasized the central importance of combating the corruption which endangers security and undermines the Afghan people's ability achieve a stable and prosperous future, we underscored that the women of Afghanistan must be at the table for reconciliation talks.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What is happening in the streets expresses people's pain, but generalizing corruption (charges) against everyone carries big injustice.

– Michel Aoun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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