A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.