Quotes About Ethics

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

I will never do something like an item number.

I'm not doing an item number in any film.

If offered, I'll definitely do an item number. I don't think there is anything wrong in it.

Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

My job is to do what's best for my client. I'm always going to take the same risk that they take. The beauty about this business is that I'm not a defense lawyer. So you don't pay me and I get you two years when you were facing 10, and I still get paid and you go to jail. That's not the way it works. When they do well, I do well.

I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively - gangster heroes. That's who is worshipped: people who get away with it.

I believe in healthy competition not jealousy.

The last thing I want to do is do something that would jeopardize the greatest two minutes in sports.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.

It is not only in India but even in the west you have these crazy shows like Jerry Springer' where people come and abuse, they take off their clothes, do everything possible just to become famous and known.