Eugene Scalia Quotes

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

If you are planning on entering the field of law enforcement, be sure you understand that you WILL be held to a higher standard. This is not unjust, but a necessary fact. Those who are chosen to uphold the constitution and must do so with responsibility and that means they must live their lives as an example

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Never be associated with someone you can't be proud of, whether you work for him or he works for you

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

Want to be a well-paid bioethicist, with one, two, or even three university appointments? Just get yourself a two-piece navy polyester suit and follow these three simple rules: (1) Never name names. (2) Screw principles; just follow procedures. (3) Bury the money.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

I approach every role with the same commitment because I'm being paid for it. To not do so would be unethical.

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.