Andrea Mackris Quotes

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

A little hypocrisy is better than losing.

A good man fallen among politicians.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

I did not wish to bribe myself.

You learn to look the other way. If you go after all the corruption, you end up blowing up your own administration.

In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

I think it less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

While I bore the titel of "Honorable Judge", I felt less than honorable and moroe like a complicit tool of an unjust system.

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.