Quotes about Ethics

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.