Michael Jackson Quotes

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

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.

The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

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

There is a special place in hell for people who prey on children. I’ve yet to see a valid explanation, and I have no reason to doubt the victims' accounts.

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

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name - someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.

The reality is that people know my character, and they know my service.

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.