Charlie Crist Quotes

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

You should just do the right thing.

As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Ethics is not a job that anyone turns to naturally, but every public agency has to have it.

When I have to do what I think is right for Montana, I do it.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

I want to make sure I do the right thing for society.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.

I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Do the right thing because it is right.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Do what you should, not what you may.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.