Quotes About Integrity

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

The essence of good government is trust.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.