Quotes About Honesty

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect.

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

Nothing undermines faith in our political system than politicians going back on their word.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

One of the great things about Churchill is that he had the guts to say the unpalatable, to level with the people, even if it cost him politically to tell them the truth.

We don't need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.