Quotes About Ethics

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions that they've taken in this campaign.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government.