There will always be corruption in government — and Albany is no worse than anywhere else, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.

“You’ve always had and you probably always will have some level of corruption,’’ said Cuomo in an interview with New York 1.

“Power corrupts, and government is a source of power, you have it in the City Council, you have it in the state Legislature, you have it in the Congress of the United States, so, that continues.”

His remarks stood in stark contrast to those of US Attorney Preet Bharara, who last week noted that state lawmakers are more likely to be arrested than be tossed out at the polls.

“When you have a degree of corruption that is that deep and pervasive and frequent, that’s a big problem,” Bharara told MSNBC.

A rogues gallery of more than 30 state politicians have been arrested, indicted or forced out of office due to scandal in the past decade.

Last month, Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in the state, gave up his position as Assembly speaker after being accused of collecting nearly $4 million in referral fees from law firms for which he did “nothing,” according to authorities.

Another six current or former state legislators are reported to be in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors, with Bharara suggesting the public “stay tuned” for further revelations of graft.

By comparison, only five New York City Council members were arrested for corruption while in office in the past 10 years. And only seven sitting members of Congress have been indicted, most recently former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm on tax-evasion charges.

Good-government groups say it’s hard to compare Albany’s cesspool of criminality with other houses of power because ethics laws vary by jurisdiction.

“In New York, it sure feels like it is worse. But part of that is [that] the laws have gotten stronger and part of it is that Preet Bharara has decided to take this issue on,” said New York Public Interest Research Group’s Blair Horner.

Cuomo said during the TV interview that he hopes to pass ethics reform this year because corruption threatens the legacy he’s built.

“I’ve passed very strong ethics. I hope to get that done this year. Because it really, to me, casts a shadow on everything we’ve done,” he said.

On corruption, he added:

“It will never stop, but at least if we have a system in place where we can say people, look people will do stupid things — and people do stupid things no matter the profession — but we will have a system that is as tight as you can get. That’s what I want to do at the end of the day.”

Cuomo took New York 1’s Errol Louis on a tour of the Hall of Governors at the Capitol and said he wants more accomplishments to be listed under his portrait on the wall where it will eventually reside.

Cuomo took New York 1’s Errol Louis on a tour of the Hall of Governors at the Capitol and said he wants more accomplishments to be listed under his portrait on the wall where it will eventually reside.

“You are working here now and at one point there will be a date on the wall that is this date,” said Cuomo.

“And what did we accomplish and what did we do? And what have you done, that would merit being on that wall?”

Cuomo said there are no plans to hang any photos of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in ignominy after getting caught in a hooker scandal.