Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

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

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.