Quotes About Ethics

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even cruel struggle.

We need to elect leaders who have a strong moral compass. Leaders who are honest, straightforward, and tough - with a love of justice and fair play.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

I'll never be rude to another news person. It's a tough job, a thankless job. You really have to get out there and grovel to get your story.

People don't really believe that their computer or sneakers are made by small hands, a child's hands, or a person who is living such a miserable life. They somehow think that, no, that person has a tough life, but it's an OK life.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

You're constantly asking yourself, 'Am I doing enough? Am I living up to this moment? Am I asking the toughest questions of the president to make sure we're continuing to do our job to hold him accountable for his words and his promises?'

I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be only one race.

As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.