Armstrong Williams Quotes

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

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.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

Character is long-standing habit.

Ethics to me is very important.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganization of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.

We are all responsible for our actions and our failures to act.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.