Gene Green Quotes

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.

Speech is the mirror of action.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

I was afraid if I didn’t do the right thing a lot of people would die

They [Congressmen] may ... consult and prefer the interests of their particular constituents when they come in conflict with any other particular or local interest, yet it is their first or highest duty, as representatives of the United States, to promote the general good.

If someone has been paying you or employing you, it is very difficult to blow the whistle. It offends our sense of loyalty.

I do not know whether I have helped or harmed my fellow citizens. History can probably be the only judge of that.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.