Quotes About Ethics

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

Within the small crew of people who hold the media's many 'NeverTrump' positions, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Pete Wehner doesn't get enough credit for writing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.

Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

If public servants are freely allowed to take up lucrative post retirement jobs with companies to whom they have awarded contracts while they were in government, it would open up an easy way for companies to bribe public servants by offering them lucrative post retirement jobs.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.