Quotes About Integrity

Doing what's right isn't always popular and doing what's popular isn't always right.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyretechnics associated with us

Everybody's trying to get me," the president said.

He's a fucking moron," Tillerson said so everyone heard.

The important thing is the presidency, Nixon continued. If need be, save the presidency from the President.

Cohn had witnessed this for over a year—denial when needed or useful or more convenient. "He's a professional liar," Cohn told an associate.

Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or inspire. No editor. [Carl Bernstein's A reporter's assessment]

He's a professional liar.

He's 71. He's not going to admit he's wrong, ever.

Cohn realized again what he had said before to others about the president: "He's a professional liar.

The president has no moral compass," Mattis replied. The bluntness should have shocked Coats, but he'd arrived at his own hard truths about the most powerful man in the world. "True," Coats agreed. "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.

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Should I resign?" he asked Colin Powell, who had been the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. "Fuck no!" Powell said. "I told you never to take the job. You never should have taken the job. Trump's a fucking maniac.

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It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing.

Mike, this is not right!" Trump said

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He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.