Walter Lippmann Quotes

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Washington could not tell a lie; Nixon could not tell the truth; Reagan cannot tell the difference.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

I am not a crook.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

In the Prime Minister, we have a man who has forfeited the right to be believed or to be trusted.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

President Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

[Richard Nixon was:] The greatest moral leader of the last third of this century.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

I never thought I would see a President of the United States say on television that “I am not a crook.” The worst part of it was, Nixon couldn’t even look the camera in the eye.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

Well, I'm not a crook.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.