Pete McCloskey Quotes
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
McCloskey, Pete. Interview by Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 20 Apr. 2007.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
At that time, most of the leading Republicans practiced negative campaigning with vicious personal attacks that were often untrue. He was the only one of the 9 candidates who did not engage in the technique. He came in close to last.
The judgment of future generations is usually quite different from that of the contemporary generation.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. From the point of view of the person or company that bribes or gives campaign contributions to legislators, there has often been a problem that when the heat is on the legislator might begin to refrain from voting as was expected. Twain was joking in this quotation by using the world “morality” to describe the obligation of the legislator to vote for the interest of the briber or campaign contributor. However, there were several major businessmen who actually saw the bribed legislator as having a moral and ethical duty to continue to protect the interest of the briber.
Everyone who is employed owes the employer some degree of loyalty and cannot give his public opinion on an issue if it differs from the candidate or party that employees him. This is why it is so important if a Democrat criticizes Democrats or a Republican criticizes Republicans.
Moses urged them not to accept a compromise what would give them the majority of everything that they were demanding but not all. See {637624} for Rustin’s’ argument to accept the compromise.
This was his perception of the change in Parliament in the 64 years he was in that body. Bribery, for example, was then commonplace for American and British legislators. By the 21st century the money spent by the rich and corporations to by legislative outcomes was many times as great but had been covered over by the fig leaf of campaign and party contributions.
Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. is an American politician who represented San Mateo County, California as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983.
