Quotes About Ethics

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

The way I eat is a heavy statement on my belief system. I eat cruelty-free. It is my way of being able to take a stand against doing harm to any living creature.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

When there are falsehoods and ludicrous statements made at briefings, we've got to call that out.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

I think I should be respectful of fighters. This sport is brutal enough itself. I don't think you should say stupid statements or should act like savages.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

States are not moral agents.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

The post of honour is a private station.

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.

There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was - not a president, but a blundering cheat.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.