Quotes About Ethics

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

I don't have business with any politicians.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

Politicians often lie.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.