Pervez Musharraf Quotes

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

I looked the man in the eye and found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

I lie very little and am a very straight-forward person.

I speak what's real.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

I don't play mind games.

I have little time for sincerity.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

I try to be as realistic as possible.