Probity Quotes

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. - Felix Adler

What we would also need to have some guarantees about is the probity of the police force undertaking these tests themselves to make sure that they are free from corruption or any other maleficence. - Kevin Rudd

The RFP (request for tender) requirements, including requirements on probity, have been stated upfront in the RFP. These requirements have not changed since the launch of the RFP in November 2005. - Margaret Teo

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The economy needs stimulus now, so bring forward some [of the] tax cuts [scheduled for later years], but cancel the last piece scheduled to go into effect in 2008. That would help the short-term economy, and it's better for long-term fiscal probity. - Joshua Feinman

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. - Elliot Richardson