Quotes About Integrity

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

I had rather be right than be President.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.