Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. – Kate Atkinson
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we’ve got a really big problem. – Kiefer Sutherland
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President. – Karen Hughes
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. – John Scott
In the old fairy tales, often a ‘moral’ was tacked on at the end of the story – say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don’t really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird – part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals. – Kate Bernheimer
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world’s most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America. – John Cornwell
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city’s first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. – Laura Miller
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don’t know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking. – Justin Welby
There’s nothing like meeting someone’s family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person. – Lenora Crichlow
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don’t talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness. – Jonathan Maberry
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We’re still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. – Laura Miller
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn’t quite know; they haven’t been tested. – Jack Scalia
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. – Kerry Stokes
My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair. – John W. Rogers, Jr.
Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it’s public records or ethics, it’s not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It’s like throwing a boulder. – Kate Brown
The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal. – Marcia Fudge
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there’s anything coercive or abusive going on. – Jane Mayer
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors – we used to call them mercenaries – to do the country’s fighting. – Michael Ignatieff
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. – James MacGregor Burns
‘V-Wars’ is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. – Jonathan Maberry
Ethics are a key issue, and they’re a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards. – Jeb Bradley
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it’s an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that’s my trademark or one of them, anyway! – M. Night Shyamalan
Now it’s time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods… and real ethics reform at City Hall. – Laura Miller
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business. – Jamshyd Godrej
When I first read Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl,’ I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale – fairy tales are brutal. – Kate Bernheimer
Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it. – Ken Cuccinelli
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. – Louise Slaughter
