“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”

- Adlai Stevenson, Illinois governor, Democratic nominee for president against Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 to 1965

“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.”

- John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause