Julian Baggini Quotes

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Be prepared and be honest.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

My instructions were, "You don't lie. You put your own interpretation on the truth.