It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.