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.

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

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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!

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

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

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I can be a cruel person.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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.

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

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

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.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Immigrants aren’t the reason wages haven’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

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?

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

A letter does not blush.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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.

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.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

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

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

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

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.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

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.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

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.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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

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.

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

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.