Roy Jenkins Quotes

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

People believed what I said was what I believed.

I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

This is a smear on the image that Thurmond has as a person of high integrity.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

Most politicians are not authentic.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.