Pete Rose Quotes

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

I refuse to lie to children.

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!

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

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

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

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

In the tough and dangerous world in which we live a President must always say what he means and mean what he says.

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.

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.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

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.

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

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

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

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

You are committed to what you confess.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Be prepared and be honest.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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.