Quotes About Ethics

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Politics is not about power.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

A good man who did a bad thing.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.