Quotes About Ethics

I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

There is no justice among men.

Since taking office, I have worked to fill my team with men and women of the highest integrity.

I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

We deserve better than a win-at-all-costs mentality.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I don't want a mercenary management team.

I wasn't going to sell out on top, if I was going to be in the main event with somebody I wasn't going to sell out an 80,000 seat arena, I wasn't going to sell a lot of merchandise. I wasn't that guy that you were going to put as the face of your company.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

To President Biden's credit, I mean, he kind of - he says, if you mess up, fess up. And if you, you know, don't have the answer, don't make it up. And I follow that.