Jean Meserve Quotes

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

This is not politics. This is garbage. And we are disgusted by it. To those who are departed who sought in some, quote, clever, unquote way, to tarnish the reputation of Tom Foley, I say, good riddance.

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

It wouldn’t hurt to remind the voters of what scoundrels your opponents are and to smear them at every opportunity….

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor Jeremiah Wright or from raising that issue in any other way. He believed it was a sneaky way to use Obama's race against him.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

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.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

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.

Let us be tried by our actions.

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

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

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