Quotes About Integrity

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.

Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

The roles that I get offered are very good and of serious women who are morally upright, righteous and honest.

We need all races of men, and decent women, to stand up for what's right, drop anger, and live upright.

A disciplined and morally upright nation is built by disciplined and morally upright institutions.

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

I've been through the ups and downs and had a lot of different things go on. But the one thing I believe is that when fans bought a ticket to see me fight, they got their money's worth every time. I never cheated them. I gave them what they came to see.

I understand that the truth can upset people, but I'm never going to stop sticking up for myself, or for what I think is right.

There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

I get really upset when I'm around liars.

It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!

I try to make the things that I say be based in reality, based in facts, and truthful. And if that's the case, and you want to be upset at me for stating the truth, that's your choice.