Quotes About Integrity

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.

At the highest level of the government, we have to set the tone and preach by example.

Character is key. Once you've got that voice going, everything else can follow. If you've also got the right tone, you're in the right area - an inconsistent tone can screw up a project.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Well, I think if somebody says something that I don't agree with, I don't think that I should bite my tongue. I don't think anyone should bite their tongue. And if I have said over and over I don't like something and it's constantly being done or I'm being disrespected, then you've got hell to pay.

I speak my mind, so I don't hold my tongue for nobody.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

I have a 'pillow test' - can I go to bed tonight knowing that I did my best today? If I can, I'm happy.

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn't always like what he had to say, but he stuck to it.

I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.