Quotes About Candidness

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.

The number one thing I've heard Trump supporters say - number one thing - 'I love him because he says what's on his mind. He just says what's on his mind.' He just says what's on his mind. You go, 'What are your thoughts on his policies?' 'I don't know about his policies. He just says what's on his mind.'

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

No good can ever come out of anything if you try to put every problem in the closet rather than talking about it.

The creator of an apologia dares to speak personally … autobiographically and candidly and always vulnerably … about his or her engagement with the ideas and progress of ideas being presented.

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

I am more off-the-cuff and wear my emotions on my sleeve more than I should.

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

I'm not a polished politician.

If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn't vote for me.

My biggest strength is I'm not a career politician.

What you're getting on Twitter is me sitting on a bench, just with a lot less cuss words. Honestly.

I wasn't out there pretending I was a conservative Democrat. I'm somebody who has talked a lot about and has done the act of running as who you are.

I think sometimes if you let it all hang out, it makes you a target.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

To speak candidly, with neither justification nor humiliation, relieves the haunting of memory and mind and becomes one way to regain our dignity and our strength.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

But what I'm saying is that whenever I've been in trouble spots -- in crises (and I've been in a lot of trouble and in a lot of crises) -- the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

People seem comfortable with me. And maybe that's got a lot to do with shows like Graham Norton. You just tell it like it is on those programs.

Like true friends, they take no hardy or elegant stance loosely choreographed from some broad perspective. They get right in there and mutter Jesus Christ! and shake their heads.