D. A. Carson Quotes

Perception of legitimacy is more important than legitimacy itself.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.