Quotes About Ethics

One should have humanity and should know what to speak and how to behave, and our lifestyle should be good.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

I would never risk speaking ill of Messi.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

Unfortunately, though both Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi hail from Gujarat, Gandhi never lied, and Modi never speaks the truth.

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

Public servants should be focused on serving the public - not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation - not an exception.

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive.

What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.