Kathryn Harrison Quotes

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

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

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

There are no secrets.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

My thought process is I have been lied to so much by people who I thought I could trust that it motivates me to want to be as honest as possible, to project that energy, because that is how I want people to treat me.

You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

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

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.