When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

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

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

Tell the children the truth.

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

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

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

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

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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

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, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

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

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

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

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

An honest man is always a child.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

I make pop culture.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

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

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

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.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

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

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.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

A letter does not blush.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

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

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.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

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