Susan B. Anthony Quotes

It is very unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

I've been elected for 15 years without so much as a smidgen of a stain on my public record. I'm confident that I've done nothing wrong. Nothing unethical and nothing illegal.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver.

Political leaders, elected by the public and vested with the power to shape public life, owe it to citizens to set better standards regarding their use of money, and their conduct, both in and out of office.

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 ...

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

No one on the planet Earth is going to be able to look at me on television and say that I'm a liar. It will not happen.

Here's the lines I draw: I never say something I don't believe - ever, ever, ever; and I won't endorse a product I don't like and use. When the cameras are off, we are who we are when they're on.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.