David Crockett Quotes

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

I am a big fan of the following priorities: first the country, then the party and then the person. I believe that this gives credibility and I want to be credible.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

I'm not going sell out on the people of state of Florida.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

The most important question ask any candidate is, "what issue do you believe in that will most greatly offend the leadership of your party or your campaign contributors?

Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

No man can serve two masters. No man can serve his people and the [party] caucus.

We’ve had some great presidents in my lifetime. I haven’t agreed completely with any of them.

It is much easier to establish trust than it is to reestablish it once you have lost it.

I don’t care for the Presidency if it has to come by compromise with Senator Foraker. I would never strike a bargain to endorse a man who has consistently opposed the policies and programs of the Roosevelt Administration.

If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I'm falling short.

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

At the end of the day, I'm fighting for the things I said I'd fight for.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

I have only put my reputation on the line three times with people, Cesaro being one of them.