Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them I thought from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics if not in my soul. The true me my spiritual core slipped further and further from reach.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Politics have no relation to morals.