Tom Graves Quotes

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

Sometimes, you have to take a stand; you cannot make everyone happy.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

I was always taught if you do something, face the piper. Try to make it right.

The people who think it a shame when anything goes wrong—who rush to the conclusion that evil could or ought to have been prevented, are those who, in the long run, do most to make the world better.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

I'm a firm believer if you do the right thing, the American people will notice.

I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.

I do what I can do to help my defense.