Quotes About Integrity

I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

It takes a lot to be considered a Raven.

I'm being my real raw self, and that's what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.

I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

I don't care about getting re-elected; I care about saving the country.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a scheme that reached the highest levels of the company.

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'