Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Nothing is worse or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve"

Bob Riley, Politician

"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"A promise made should be a promise kept"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke"

William Feather, Author

"Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door"

Vernon Howard, Author

"Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful, not to hurt anybody. He's skillful"

Richard Gere, Actor

"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists"

John McCarthy, Politician

"I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid"

Keith Miller, Author

"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I call God to witness that, as a private person, I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place"

Francis Walsingham, Celebrity

"Our best comes out when we have honest discussions"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations"

Chris Patten, Politician

"There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"It is better to be thought perverse than insincere"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"Calamity is the test of integrity"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm just trying to tell my side of the story"

O.J. Simpson, Athlete

"I'm a good guy. I've been a good guy for 50 years"

O.J. Simpson, Athlete

"I would never do anything just for spite"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State"

John Burns, Activist

"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican Party"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word"

Joseph Roux, Clergyman

"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

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