Quotes About Integrity

I have never used my family name to 'cash-in.' Unfortunately, such ridiculous charges come with the territory of coming from a famous and public family.

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

I owe it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, but to continue to do what is right for their families and for mine.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

I am not a terrorist, I am a former chief minister.

Every person is scared of which bomb Modi will drop at which minute. He is appearing like a terrorist. Instead of loving his people, he is scaring them. This is not a characteristic of a Prime Minister.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

I've always refused to play terrorists.

I won't work with Terry Richardson again.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.