Quotes About Integrity

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it's a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.

I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

We're trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don't.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong.

Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

Nothing is more important to those of us at CIA than our obligation to earn the trust of our fellow citizens.

I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.

I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'

You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.