Adlai Stevenson Quotes on Integrity
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I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forthrightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.