Jon Corzine Quotes

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

We must practice what we preach.

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.

Obey your purpose above all else.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

Respectability in this country was a bad word because people did things who were in respected professions that let down the entire nation, and we're washing away their sins yet.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

Sometimes you've got to do things you don't want to do. Doing the right thing is not always comfortable; it doesn't always feel good.

We've been training since we were small. You definitely got to love it to be part of this family. We like to have fun. We like to work hard, and always staying out of trouble and always doing the right thing.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.