Quotes About Ethics

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

And I think when you're an elected official, rightly so, you should watch what you say.

Enacted in 1994, the first of the MSRB rules bars employees of firms that underwrite state and municipal bonds from donating to any official seeking federal office who has any role in giving business to bond firms.

I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index.

The law often allows what honor forbids.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.