Quotes About Ethics

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.