John Kerry actually said...

"Fighting corruption is also central to our promotion of human rights and democracy."

"Anger over corruption helped inspire the uprisings of the Arab Spring."

"As Secretary Kerry has said, there is no greater cause of disillusionment or surer way to alienate citizens from the state than the 'sense that the system in rigged against them and that people in pos..."

"Corruption gives them a means of purchasing loyalty--and a means of enforcing it."