Ron Dellums Quotes

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Stay true to your integrity, and if you're doing something that you feel like doesn't represent your integrity, speak up. You have to say that. If you're doing something that doesn't make you feel good, you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.