Conflict of Interest Quotes

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that has been upheld.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Heaven cannot support two suns, nor earth two masters, nor Asia two kings

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

The main thing is the ‘rule of corruption’: helping the horse both to race and also to get a mouthful of hay. It’s what all civil servants are secretly thinking. Our expectations for our civil servants are far too high, far too grandiose. The pressure is more than their flesh-and-blood bodies can stand.

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he's made a decision that he's going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He's decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.

Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and out government.

We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

In Mafia states government officials enrich themselves and their families and friends while exploiting the money, muscle, political influence, and global connections of criminal syndicates to cement and expand their own power…Top positions in some of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises are no longer filled only by professional criminals; they now include senior government officials, legislators, spy chiefs, heads of police departments, military officers, and, in some extreme cases, even heads of state and their families.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

Mr. Ten Percent

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it clear that he cannot accept those favors.

Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.