Kresley Cole Quotes

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

There is a political value in being honest and saying what you mean.

I have long observed one Rule .... It is simply this, to be concern'd in no Affairs that I should blush to have made publick, and to do nothing but what spies may see ...

Maybe sometimes you are punished for honesty, but I always prefer to be honest.

Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices, but ultimately we will be accountable for each choice we make. We may deceive others, but there is One we will never deceive. From the Book of Mormon we learn, "The keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name." [2 Nephi 9:41]

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.