Quotes About Integrity

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

You know what's cooler than being the richest guy in the room? Being the toughest guy in the room.

You're constantly asking yourself, 'Am I doing enough? Am I living up to this moment? Am I asking the toughest questions of the president to make sure we're continuing to do our job to hold him accountable for his words and his promises?'

I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

In the grownup world an apology tour is just for show.

I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.

I agree it is the most important, but cycling is not only about Tour. If everybody thinks like Armstrong, there will be only one race.

I'm not gonna be like, 'Farewell tour!' then come back. Never say those words to fans - you have to come back if you say that.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.

You want to put out a record that you feel is exactly as you want it. Nobody wants to tour for two years on a record they don't like.

I don't like when I see bands that are just a memory of what they used to be, and there's a few out there that I've seen recently that are still touring... I'm not gonna name them, but some of the members can barely play their parts, and then they have a lot of other members that weren't even originally in the band.

The knockout games of a major tournament are when you see players' true characters.

I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.

Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.

My father didn't compete ever in martial arts tournaments because they were not real. They were tag tournaments or touch tournaments, which he thought was bizarre and not really what the martial arts is about.

If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.

I have spent my life working to protect our country. I served three tours in Iraq with the CIA, served in national security positions under Presidents of both parties, and at the Pentagon.

Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.

My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Real men stay out of their women's business and they don't engage in repugnant hostile actions or words toward a woman whether they know, like, or dislike her.