Quotes About Integrity In Politics

#1. The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

Ian McKellen

#3. The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.

Philip K. Dick

#4. My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.

Chronis Missios

#5. This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

Beau Willimon

#6. If you choose to give and give of your own free will, give with a good heart, expecting absolutely nothing in return and holding no strings over those you give to.

Mary Solomon

#7. The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity

Gary York

#8. He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics.

Kenneth Eade

#9. I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

Kathy Griffin

#10. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Short

#11. Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

Toni Sorenson

#12. It's only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for modern physics.

Sean Carroll

#13. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...

Brandon Sanderson

#14. My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Winfield Scott Hancock

#15. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Herman L Glaess

#16. Reality is always extraordinary.

Mary Ellen Mark

#17. Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Orrin Woodward

#19. Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

George McGovern

#20. And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

Lawrence Lessig

#21. I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Vijay Mallya

#22. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

Tariq Ali

#24. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?

L. Frank Baum

#25. Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

Tony Campolo

#26. If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Joe Biden

#27. What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Mark Twain

#28. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Bob Barr