Quotes About Ethics

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

Rogues, would you live forever?

But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.

I'm always fascinated by people when they reach that fork in the road, where they can make a moral choice.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

I never made a fortune by defrauding others.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I have fought corruption.

I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.

I fought for the rule of law in America.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

I don't think I had one personal foul in my career. Now, that being said, no one can ever say I never brought it.

In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?