Jessica Savitch Quotes

A perception of a conflict of interest is jsut as bad as a conflict of interest,

There are no client conflicts, only bad explanations.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

You consult your honor; I my interest.

I still viewed myself as a reviewer when I was on radio. Was it appropriate for me? I think the answer is it's only inappropriate if I allowed it to affect my film reviewing. I don't think you will find any studio that said, 'Yeah, he went easy on us because he was shopping a script.'

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

Any community's arm of force—military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it.

I could not permit my silence and my inaction to be construed as condonation.... With my tongue tied by the confidentiality demanded of me by law, there was only one way I could make a statement that something was wrong. I chose it. I resigned.

I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.

It is impossible for me, with any agreement to my sense of propriety, to accept any sort of compensation for services which I may endeavor to do upon a public account.

If someone has been paying you or employing you, it is very difficult to blow the whistle. It offends our sense of loyalty.