Quotes About Ethics

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

We don't let criminals serve in our office as president.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

The president is expected to follow the rules just like everybody else.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

If there's one thing we know about President Trump, it's that he lies and he cheats. Endlessly. And shamelessly. But still, mostly, incompetently.

No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

The press is the enemy.

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

There is no such thing as absolute freedom of the press, not even in the most advanced countries in the world. There are things you just don't say, because it will destabilise the environment.

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.