Quotes About Integrity

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

Politics ruins the character.

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

Politics is not about money.

The best politics is no politics.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

I'm not in the business of politics.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.

People often complain that celebrities after joining politics are not seen once the polls are over. But I am not like them. I would work for development.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

My identity is in Christ, and I really hope that I show that with just my character, the way that I do things on the pool deck.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.