"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless." -Moliere Jean Baptiste Poquelin] Tartuffe, V, I (1622-1673) We need to stress that personal integrity is as important as executive skill in business dealings. Setting an example from the top has a ripple effect throughout a business, school, or corporation. A reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity as well as your word and a handshake. Integrity outlines countless details of public figures, elected officials, clergy, professors and teachers, union leadership, professional and amateur athletes, as well as judges and identifies the lack of moral character, honesty, ethics, and integrity in their respective professions or occupations. The lack of moral character, honesty, ethics, principles, uprightness, and reliability has virtually vanished from our local, state, and federal governments, schools and universities, churches, and even our courts. We as parents, teachers, clergy, and especially politicians need to wake up and assume responsibility for what is happening in our society before it crumbles like the Roman Empire. Mr. Parker outlines the current issues of integrity or the lack thereof in this outstanding text. He pinpoints specific flaws in our political system (politicians) and numerous errors in judgment throughout an ill-informed society and laissez-faire culture.