Quotes about wrongdoing (16 Quotes)


    One Republican said the party would be judged on how decisively it responds to these accusations of wrongdoing and others in which leading Republicans are entangled. What is our standard ... The bottom line is how we handle it.


    I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

    I want to assure everyone that I am completely innocent of any wrongdoing and look forward to the truth coming out when this matter is fully investigated. On the advice of my attorney, I cannot comment further.

    The committee has received information which suggests that the campaign finance abuse memos may contain allegations of criminal wrongdoing by the president. The committee is duty-bound to investigate that information.


    Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

    This mortal probation is a brief periodjust a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.

    The sources confidence that we will not divulge his identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud or abuse or other wrongdoing or even a dissenting view about government policy or business practices that the American people may need to know.


    For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

    The administration skipped the earlier innings against corporate wrongdoing, but the President is gradually coming to realize that strong enforcement is important to confidence in our markets,

    We are only as good as our sources, ... If they are mistaken, we will be wrong. And a source's confidence that we will not divulge their identity is crucial to his or her readiness to come to us with allegations of fraud, or abuse or other wrongdoing.



    We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.




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