Helen Suzman Quotes

You ask me why I air your dirty laundry, but you do not ask yourself why you soil it to begin with.

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

With publicity comes humiliation.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

One of these days I’m going to blast President Truman’s State Department wide open.

There are plenty who think a union should not speak out, fight for or criticize the foreign policy of our government; that it should be a matter of our government, right or wrong, in matters of foreign policy. We have never adhered to that belief. And we shouldn’t.

I was instructed let’s put out press releases touting advances and let’s minimize problems because we want the Department of Home Security to be a good news story…. But you have to tell the truth when you are in a job like this.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

You cannot hide yourself from any situation.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.