Quotes About Ethics

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

As a journalist, I think it's OK to feel - I think there's space for it. It's how you react to those feelings that's important.

Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

I want to read philosophers.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of life we are on the side of.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits.