Quotes About Ethics

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

I'm a Congressman, and can do whatever I want

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

I have no trouble selling out—I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.