Herbert Hoover Quotes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

In Washington, and wherever two or more politicians may gather, he who does not get caught has ‘character’ and he who gets caught has none..

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

To expect integrity or honesty in a politician is like trying to buy fish at a produce market.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

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

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

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.

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

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

In politics there is no honor.

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

Most of us [members of Congress] are honest at all times, and all of us are honest most of the time.

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

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.