Right Thing Quotes

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

Do the right thing because it is right.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. I really believe that. But that's just me; that's what I've tried to do because that's how my mother raised me.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.