Quotes About Integrity

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

Free speech and freedom of the press are under attack in the U.K. I cannot return to England, my country, because of my journalistic work with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and at WikiLeaks. There are things I feel I cannot even write.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

I have to say that talk of me living as a tramp at one point is completely false and I think that's been added to my entry in Wikipedia, but I have been asked about that quite a few times.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend.

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.