Lack of Integrity Quotes

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.

He [Henry Clay] is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraces the image of God—nothing too mean or low for him to condescend to.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

She was incurably dishonest.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

This system stinks and every senator who participates in it knows it stinks. And the American people are right when they mistrust this system, when what matters most in seeking public office is not integrity, not ability, not judgment, not reason, not responsibility, not experience, not intelligence, but money …. Money dominates the system. Money infuses the system. Money is the system.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.

Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have literally sold everything they have to sell. They have sold their honesty. They've sold their integrity. They've sold America down the river. They have sold everything in order to amass critical personal wealth.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

If there's one thing we know about President Trump, it's that he lies and he cheats. Endlessly. And shamelessly. But still, mostly, incompetently.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

[Characterizing Richard M. Nixon:] ... not a man of quality and depth.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.

Pierce was...a small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler. He was ever ready to do any work the slavery leaders set him.

In the end a lie is a lie.