Values & Character: Honesty & Integrity Quotes

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"Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in"

Grace Napolitano, Politician

"And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation"

David Kay, Scientist

"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

"The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"I do not have the answers and as a woman, I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"I love the idea of rectitude"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity"

Amy Grant, Musician

"So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, act right all the time, because someone's always watching"

Gwen Ifill, Journalist

"In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner"

Abdolkarim Soroush, Philosopher

"You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate"

Abbott L. Lowell

"I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks"

Joe Scarborough, Politician

"Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded"

David E. Price, Politician

"It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly"

Katherine Fullerton Gerould, Writer

"I am not a politician"

Erskine Bowles, Businessman

"I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity, as an independent inspector general should act"

Gerald Walpin, Public Servant

"No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone"

Gennifer Flowers, Celebrity

"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day, your actions belie your intentions"

Esai Morales, Actor

"It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister"

David Blunkett, Politician

"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest"

David Blunkett, Politician

"But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility"

David Blunkett, Politician

"We've heard this before; 'Things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed"

Fred Upton, Politician

"I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"But you know, really, if you think about it, Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials, and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend"

Jack Abramoff, Criminal

"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth"

Edward Burnett Tylor, Scientist

"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about, because I think that does the viewer a disturbance"

Dan Abrams, Journalist

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think, no matter whom it offends"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"Well, if you were asking my personal opinion on that, I think the answer can only be yes, but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that"

John Anderson, Writer

"It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach, which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions"

David Blunkett, Politician

"Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part"

John Bright, Politician

"I have always been honest about my recollection of events"

David Blunkett, Politician

"I did not, in late November, start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again"

David Blunkett, Politician

"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them"

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Writer

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