Quotes About Ethics

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

There is no power without justice.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.