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.

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.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

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

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

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

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Every President wants to do right.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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

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.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

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

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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.

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 want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

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.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

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

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!

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.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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.‘

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.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.