Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention"

Edward Blake, Politician

"The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth"

Bob Graham, Politician

"No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular"

Sam Waterston, Actor

"But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes"

Tom Cochrane, Musician

"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"I said during the course of the campaign, I didn't like it, and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads, and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius"

Rich Lowry, Editor

"Tell it like it is"

Peter Pace

"We don't want to keep secrets anymore"

Nong Duc Manh, Politician

"When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"I'm pretty much an open book"

Lee Greenwood, Musician

"I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything"

Lil' Kim, Musician

"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books"

Don Nickles, Politician

"I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation"

Janet Malcolm, Writer

"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought"

Judy Davis, Actress

"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism"

Chloe Sevigny, Actress

"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer"

James Galway, Musician

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private"

David Blunkett, Politician

"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof"

David McCullough, Historian

"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours"

Don Hewitt, Producer

"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads"

Grace Paley, Writer

"I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong"

Chris Bell, Politician

"These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie"

Edward Bennett Williams, Lawyer

"Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?"

Casey Affleck, Actor

"No man should have a political office because he wants a job"

Franklin Knight Lane, Politician

"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish"

Dick Armey, Politician

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