Jonathan Swift Quotes

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists. When professional antagonists become after-hours drinking buddies, they are not likely to turn each other in

If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar.

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he's made a decision that he's going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He's decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.

I have never asked anyone, including the president, for anything for the company or my personal gain.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

I'm going to make a guess, not a definitive statement, I would think if you had to make a decision like that [ completed the e-mail investigation on Hillary Clinton], you'd give it - you'd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldn't make it as the appointee of the new president.

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

I believe all children are - are blessings from God. And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.