Quotes About Credibility

I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.

What I notice now is that a lot of the things that are said to us on camera, on air, are not particularly believed and quite often not true. It is an extraordinary position to be in. It is a really weird position to be in as a journalist.

I would like 'Frost' to go on forever, but you don't want people in the press hammering you, saying you've outstayed your welcome or that it's not believable anymore.

In the West, you take people at their word.

False praise is worse than no praise.

In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

I respect it if you're a really good DJ but you can't produce. What I hate is those who pretend to produce when they have a guy in another room doing all the work. Don't pretend. Everyone will figure it out at the end of the day.

I believe if someone is authentic, they shouldn't have to advertise. If you can really talk to the dead, people are going to hear about it.

I've not made my name as a wheeler and dealer. Don't say that.

Nobody believes Macri can pay back the debt.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

I think Detective Murdoch would say that what sets Canada apart is that we are known for being above board, that we don't fudge numbers and misrepresent ourselves.

At the top, successful blacks, like David Lammy and Diane Abbot, have merged effortlessly into what continues to be a largely white elite: they have studied at Oxbridge and gone on to Oxbridge-style careers, such as that of an MP. But they have done so at the cost of losing much of their credibility with blacks on the street and in the ghettos.