Barbara Boxer Quotes

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'

Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.

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

We wrestle with the political issues of who has stewardship over life.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

I think that at his core, Benjamin Netanyahu is not corrupt.

As you know, it's so important that we always embrace the sanctity of life. One way to do that is to vote pro-life in every election.

Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.