Quotes About Integrity

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.