Doing the right thing Quote by Seymour Hersh

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

— Arlen Specter

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

— Sam Donaldson

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of…

— Frederick Scott Oliver

It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations…

— Edmund Burke

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

— Calvin Coolidge

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

— Gerald R. Ford

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Ellen Glasgow

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession…

— George Orwell

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

— Abraham Lincoln

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who…

— Lord Acton

A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause,…

— Charlie Munger