Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself, is a test of your humanness"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly, and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - We did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited"

Michael Isikoff, Journalist

"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination"

Richard Reeves, Writer

"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter"

Jeff Gannon, Journalist

"Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time, you don't keep reality from the population"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying"

Michael Musto, Writer

"If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"It takes people a while to trust you"

Karl Malone, Athlete

"I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people"

Dick Murphy, Politician

"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"Just stay true to yourself, and true to wut you believe"

Joel Madden, Musician

"I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"I've never been a yes man"

Rogers Hornsby, Athlete

"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service"

Leslie Stephen, Author

"I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"There is indeed a inherently honesty to it"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Corruption never has been compulsory"

Anthony Eden, Politician

"Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"I was a good liar as a child"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests"

Dick Murphy, Politician

"I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the one-upmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance"

Erik Estrada, Actor

"And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington"

John Boehner, Politician

"If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost"

Eric Cantor, Politician

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