Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not!"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest"

Eva Longoria, Actress

"I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean"

Michael Irvin, Athlete

"I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness"

Anne Heche, Actress

"He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection"

Roy Moore, Judge

"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself, you're in control any more"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else"

Ed Harris, Actor

"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth"

James Otis, Lawyer

"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like"

Randall Jarrell, Poet

"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"The picture was of me, and I sent it"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people"

James Larkin, Activist

"Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal, does not bring honor to this House"

Mark Foley, Politician

"I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do"

Heidi Klum, Model

"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes"

James Otis, Lawyer

"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore, and that's sad"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"Slander is worse than cannibalism"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"I no longer teach law. But when I did, I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night"

Christopher Darden, Lawyer

"What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing, and I don't intend to be one of them"

Boy George, Musician

"We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"We have now recently launched the National Integrity Plan"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth"

Barbara Cartland, Novelist

"You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

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