Louise Slaughter Quotes

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

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

We must reduce corruption to its fair proportions.

Ethics and power are separate.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

All my life I have fought corruption.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

There is a kind of innate conflict of interest when members of congressional ethics committees are called upon to judge their colleagues.

In politics there is no honor.

We must rid the country of corruption, cronyism and nepotism.

Power must be held accountable. If it is not held accountable, it will wreak havoc on all why try to hold it accountable. Global power must be held accountable globally.

One person can root out corruption and abuse of power. Once he understands this, he is redeemed and can break out of the trap of fear, and break free into the light of integrity and justice. This is the effect of seeing a brave whistleblower stand up and win; it inspires the rest of us.

Louisiana showed up at the top of a study of political corruption that calculated the number of convictions per capita. Georgia came out as worst on a corruption risk report from the State Integrity Investigation, which measured factors like accountability, transparency and ethics enforcement.