Quotes About Integrity

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.

I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy.

No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.

Part of my job has always been to respect the privacy of the artists.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

I will not speak about my private life, but I am a professional, and I will always give my best.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

My sentimental problems, my private life, should not be involved in sports and politics.

If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever has been written about me, about football, about my private life.

I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.

Just because I am private person doesn't mean I am not a good person.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Being a role model is a privilege.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Everyone knows Aamir to be a perfectionist. But only those who have worked with him can vouch for his integrity. I had the privilege of doing one of my most important films, 'Mangal Pandey: The Rising' with Aamir.

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers of the American culture.

One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.