David Cay Johnston on Ethics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to David Cay Johnston, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #178908: "he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
Attributed to David Cay Johnston, entry #138653: "Where are the moralists who scream about drugs and say nothing about what I describe... Donald's deep entanglement with a major international cocaine trafficker , and things he di…"
4 Quotes by David Cay Johnston on Ethics
"he Trump presidency is unlike anything that came before, a presidency built on open public contempt for Constitutional principles."
"Where are the moralists who scream about drugs and say nothing about what I describe... Donald's deep entanglement with a major international cocaine trafficker , and things he did that make no sense whatsoever, unless they were in business together, in which case everything he did makes perfect sense. Where are these people?"
"Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream that one day his four children would be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. ...Today we often value people less by their character than by the contents of their wallet. ...The pursuit of ever more financial zeros... has... produced a moral breakdown... twisting our culture and our values in ways that tear at the fabric of our society."
"Economists have a term for situations in which someone gets rewards but has little or no incentive to avoid risk: a . ...Those who occupy the executive suite and gamble millions of dollars on the lives of others are rarely seen as engaged in morally hazardous conduct. Yet reward without risk is a form of moral hazard that blinds us to the consequences of our acts."