Quotes About Integrity

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Politics and football don't mix.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.