John Mackey Quotes

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

I didn’t intend for it to be seen by the public…. I wanted to stimulate reflection and an internal debate.

An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.

When you are in the public eye, in the name of public service, you have to understand that the more people know about you, and the more people say they want to support you, the more you have to work even harder to uphold that trust.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.

It's important that I'm a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I'd like to be associated with.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility