Yair Lapid Quotes

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.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

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

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Some States just have a good political culture. It’s not all greed driven.

The best citizens were supposed to desire honest men in office, men who would not take bribes, men who would appoint high-minded men as their subordinates, men who would look after the public interest, see that public charities were well supported.

I'm a very honest politician.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

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

It is never good for a politician to have to defend his credibility.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

Pubic business must be done. It will be done one way or another. If wise men refuse it, others will not. If honest men refuse it, others will not.

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take on the culture of corruption.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.