Quotes About Ethics

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

As someone who's run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.

I don't want to be known as a politician.

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

I'm a very honest politician.

I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of a politician that would make me then?

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.

You don't need to wear a politician's garb to serve public.

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country's national interest.

As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.