Quotes About Ethics

I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.

No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

I'm not going to get into complaining publicly about fouls. Just not going to do that.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws of contempt or libel. This is mistaken.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

In the hip-hop world, Eazy-E was the personification of evil. He paid my hospital bill, about $60,000, but he made me pay him back, which is cool, except that I later found out that he paid the bill out of my share of a publishing deal he made for me.

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

When you have multiple patients on life support, you don't pull the plug on one just to save another.

Media doesn't like when other media gets their credentials pulled - that's not OK.

There are people who try to justify eating fish by saying they have no feelings. Well, you watch a fish gasping for breath as it's pulled out of the water, and then try and tell me it has no feelings!