Quotes about Integrity
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
— Will Rogers
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
— Ronald Reagan
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.
— Thomas Paine
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
— Hillary Clinton
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
— Albert Camus
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
— Thomas Jefferson
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
— Ellen Glasgow
I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.
— Hillary Clinton
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
— John Adams