Quotes About Integrity

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

I feel that responsibility to really be authentic with people because I think that's what they deserve, especially in a time when it's very easy for people in the public eye to sort of cultivate an image.

It really irritates me when I see people in the public eye who pretend they do it all and I know they don't.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

As a public figure, I'm always interested in being part of brands that I actually enjoy. So, I would never do something with somebody I don't believe in, a product I don't believe in. There are so many products out there that I love that I'd chomp at the bit to be a part of their campaign.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

As an elected official, I live a very public life. That elected figures live under something of a microscope is perhaps a necessary condition for an informed public, and yet, even as a public official, I maintain very personal documents that are not intended for public view.

When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

One hopes that good, sensible and brave people will continue to go into public life at all levels.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

Honestly, if you are going to run for public office, I think it's incumbent... to speak up.

Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.