Quotes About Integrity

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I'm brutally honest - about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I'm not politically correct. I'm definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don't know any other way.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

When you disrespect Australian law, they will tell your firmly. Declare everything when you enter Australia.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

I'm the kind of guy if you ask me a question I'll tell you the truth if it's hurting me or not. If it's good or bad, I'll cut to the chase and that's the way it is.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

I'm not a liar; I'm a truth teller.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

If I'm really telling someone what's coming ahead of them, then I'm going to say it, and I'm going to own those words.

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.