Quotes About Integrity

The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise.

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump.

Cowardice is one of the least appealing of human qualities, and a deeply damaged Cowardly Lion leads the Republican Party.

To willingly follow a coward against your own values and to put your own power above the good of the nation is to become a coward.

Falwell, Graham, and others are providing religious cover for moral squalor

Those with the lowest standards willing to grovel and beg are often the recipients of the greatest rewards.

Now there was no need to be concerned with offering equal time or performing a news function.

And that's my question to all those Republicans who are more worried about defending Donald Trump than defending America: Is this why you went into politics? Is this why you put up with all the bullshit and stupidity that is integral to our political system, so you can be on the same side as the Russians?

No one wanted this moral test, but most of my tribe have failed it.

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump. Courage is getting out of the boat when the soldier in front of you was just killed. That's the legacy of the current generation of our politicians, and while there is failure of courage enough to go around across the political spectrum, my brief is the Republican Party and its total collapse as a moral force.

Don't be a complainer, and always think before you speak. Stay away from gossip, offensive language, or off-color jokes.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

The cold hard truth will fall on stony ground, whereas your all-around trashy rumor will flourish like a weed.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants.

The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.

It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.

influenced, and I'd be corrupting his

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

A man is what he himself does, what he thinks, what he learns, his own skills.