Quotes About Ethics

Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.

I just keep doing me and representing the sport the right way.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

We are not a banana republic.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

I don't believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you're in trouble.