Hugo Chavez Quotes

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

Don’t be shameless, Mr Blair. Don’t be immoral, Mr. Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticize anyone about the rules of the international community. You are an imperialist pawn who attempts to curry favor with Danger Bush-Hitler, the number one mass murderer and assassin there is on the planet. Go straight to hell, Mr. Blair.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

President Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

I know but one code of morality for man whether acting singly or collectively. He who says I will be a rogue when I act in company with a hundred others, but an honest man when I act alone, will be believed in the former assertion, but not in the latter.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

The best theater is trying to tell the truth, and the best politics is trying to tell the truth.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

The truth of anything doesn't matter anymore. What's right doesn't matter. What makes economic common sense doesn't matter. I'm blue in the face over it.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.