Quotes About Integrity

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.