Quotes About Ethics

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

Well, I'm not a crook.

You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

recuento oficial reza que durante los Juegos de Los Ángeles hubo once positivos. De acuerdo con Catlin, el número real era de veinte.

Johnson asegura que no fue así, aunque también dice que Astaphan «comenzó a darme píldoras de todo tipo, pastillas de todos los colores que yo me tragaba». Tiene pinta de que no eran aspirinas.

Más de un cuarto de siglo después, en su influyente libro Drugs Games (Los Juegos del Dopaje), Thomas Hunt traduciría en pocas palabras lo que era toda una obviedad: «Uebberroth había llegado a la conclusión de que el seguimiento estricto de las reglas sobre el dopaje constituía una amenaza directa a la integridad económica de los Juegos».

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I'm reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, "I am protecting the rain forest." But as his thought evolved, he realized, "I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

I've become leery of religious advocacy for laws which only value a 'life' until it's born.

My pro-life colleagues love them till they're born but don't mind a righteous execution afterward.

In his nearly twenty-five years as Chief Justice, Roger Bannon never once voted to overturn a death sentence. But what truly distinguished him was a driving lack of curiosity as to whether any of these defendants were, in fact, innocent.

It won't be easy, given that some courts have ruled that even sleeping through your client's trial is not enough to qualify.

What she was hearing, Caroline knew, was a lifetime of frustration and moral passion, based on a single, diamond-hard belief: that the death penalty was tainted by human failings too profound to cure, and that imposing it was an act of arrogance which diminished our humanity.

The notion that James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights so that racists and sociopaths and madmen could slaughter innocent men, women, and children with assault weapons or handguns is one of the most contemptible notions that an irresponsible minority has ever crammed down the throats of its potential victims.

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

We tend to assume that our hearts are pure, that we usually do the right thing, that we're better than average in almost every way you can imagine. Of course this is statistically impossible; it's just a comforting delusion. And

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

Life is not yours to take.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

Righteous indignation is the alibi of mobs and murderers.