Quotes About Ethics

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

My morals went when the president got oral.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.