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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.”

People Needs Government Democracy Integrity Ethics Desperate Agendas Ambitious Filling Public Service

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.”

Democracy Integrity Sells Deeds

Author:Steven Weber

“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”

Government Political Fighting Lost Loses Democracy Confidence Integrity Indispensable Lost Faith

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.”

Firsts Black Levels Democracy Integrity Musician Jazz Holes Visible Unspoken Highlights High Level Black Hole

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.”

Country Law Values Ability Destiny Democracy Integrity Speech International Determine Preserves Free Speech Other Countries Sovereignty Norm Rule Of Law Territorial

Author:Barack Obama

“The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.”

“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.”

Political Lying Democracy Integrity Poison Deceit Veins Hype

Author:Edward Kennedy