“You know, we are almost 330 million Americans. We’ll have to do what our president can’t, stand together, stand against hate, stand up for what’s best, our nation’s best. When we’re the best. In this nation, we believe, when we’re at our best, we believe in honesty, decency, treating everyone with r…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's clos…”— Paddy Chayefsky, Max Schumacher, William Holden, imdb.com
“Maggie: I can't change the past. Kate: Then at least have the decency to be haunted by it.”— Don Whitehead, Holly Henderson, Maggie Baptiste, Salli Richardson Whitfield, imdb.com
“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency. My only regret is that I wasn't born dead or not at all.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I think that there is a crucial debate under way in American ghettos, and that debate involves a dispute about the basic decency of white America....This proposal which we call 'fair housing' is fundamental to that debate. Because the resolution of that issue I think depends more upon white America…”— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu
“I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fightin…”— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org
“I understand your anger and I know you think I'm some kind of devil. For years, I sat back and watched everything I love about this country slowly unravel: faith, values, morals, decency. It culminated two years ago when my wife was killed in a drive-by. Her blood got me off the sidelines and into t…”— Dave Erickson, Ethan Zobelle, Adam Arkin, imdb.com
“Basic respect for women in your life should not be such a hard standard to hold each other to.”— Tori Woodward, hollywoodlife.com
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikiquote.org