Donella Meadows 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.

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

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.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

My philosophy in all my jobs at McDonald's is to be honest and say what I think and mean what I say.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.

You never want to lie to your customers.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

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

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.