Jane Lynch Quotes

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.

[Defining an honest politician:] ... a bastard who will stay bought.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Wes Clark is a man of whom you can ask a question, and he will look you directly in the eye, and give you the most truthful and complete answer you can imagine. You will know the absolute truth of the statement as well as the thought process behind the answer. You will have no doubt as to the intellect of the speaker and meaning of the answer to this question....So you can see, as a politician, he has a lot to learn.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Well, I'm not a crook.

There are no degrees of honesty.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

President Trump is a man of his word.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

If I was going to lie to you, I'd already be elected.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.