J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

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.

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

If you are going to do something that you have to lie about, don't do it, it's very simple.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I refuse to lie to children.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.