Quotes About Integrity

Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

The Bush administration opened several lines of attack against the rule of law and the integrity of an independent Justice Department. The scandals are so famous that they've been reduced to shorthand: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, NSA, Attorneygate.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

You can't applaud a referee.

Most of the time I don't go down when they kick me. I try to stay up, so the referee knows that if I go down it's because they kick me badly.

If you're going to advance as a referee and make that $75,000 to $100,000 a year in the playoffs, you're going to give the league what they want. Because they are grading you.

If you ask any referee before the game - they ask me if I have anything to say, I tell them 'I'm going straight up.' Every time. Every game. And they know that and they say I'm one of the best at it.

Just like it would be wrong to have a player referee a game, it's wrong for election officials to participate in federal campaigns.

The matches that I've been involved with as a referee, sometimes the heel likes to get up in my face a little bit and even at 65 years old, I don't put up with that crap. Most times or not, the poor guy gets chopped down a few times.

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.

I've had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven't gotten the call to do a reference check. That's almost the most basic thing one can do to assess them.

Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.

It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

Use it, enjoy it, but always handle history with care.

You may not like the way I deliver the truth - you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts - but that's the way I do business.

I try to handle myself with dignity.