Quotes About Honesty

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I'm not in the business of politics.

When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

I am not trying to be cooler or change my image or get into pop music.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

There are many things that I've learned through the characters that I've played. But one thing that pops up in my head is 'always be honest.'

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

I'm not trying to become popular.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.