Ethical Politics Quotes

The worst government is the most moral.

He is not a … politician who would sacrifice his soul for office; he is not a member of Congress who would promise anything to win a second term. He represents all that is best in American manhood involving integrity of character, a sane mind, and the loftiest of motives.

The good of man must be the goal of the science of politics.

From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

To inject morality into politics, is, I have said, and I repeat, the watchword of all our efforts.

There can be no fundamental distinction between what is morally right and what is politically right.

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

The best politics is right action.

If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.