Gina Haspel Quotes

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Ethics are more important than laws.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

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

The law often allows what honor forbids.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.