Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

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.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

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.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

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.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.