Quotes About Ethics

Look, there is always something of a fine balancing act to what we do, but ultimately I believe what matters most of the time to me is what matters to my constituents. That doesn't mean I haven't gotten into trouble at times for taking a stand I believed was right, but may not have been the popular choice.

Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

Bankers also play politics.

It is clear that too many bankers think that laws are for the little people.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

Remember that banks aren't markets. The market is amoral. The market doesn't care who you are. You're a trade to the market. The market will sell you if they think you're riskier.

If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.

Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you've gotta draw a line somewhere.

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.

I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.

While growing up we all did our own work' I remember, we had a sign on our bathroom door which said 'Gandhiji cleaned his own bathrooms, so must you.'

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

That's a really important legacy for me: to work hard and be kind to other human beings.

You must never ask or expect anyone to do anything that you would not be prepared to do yourself.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

I talk to my god every day and he's completely fine with me beating the hell out of people.

I don't eat with beautiful women alone.

My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet.