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.

Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.

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.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

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

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.

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

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

A lie cannot live.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

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.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

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

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

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

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

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.

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.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

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.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.