Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

An honest man is always a child.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Tell the children the truth.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I do not pilfer victory.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

When in doubt tell the truth.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I’ve got nothing to hide.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.