David Crockett Quotes

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Not parties, but principles.

Party service does not require intelligent, independent action, and politics today stands for party fealty more than for governmental ethics

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

Statements of honesty in Washington can only go so far when you are employed.

You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Politics ruins the character.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

You cannot influence a political party to do right if you stick to it when it does wrong.

I don't like hypocrisy—even in international relations.

The American people cannot be divided into parties on a question of simple morals or of common honesty.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.