Mike DeWine Quotes

In politics, all you have is your word.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.

You can trust Charlie Crist.

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.

It is never good for a politician to have to defend his credibility.

The last thing we want is to make people think we're going back on our word.

Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

You can get in front of the media and say, 'Yeah, I'm working hard.' You can't do it in front of those other 52 guys in the locker room. You can't fool your teammates, because they see you. They see you every day, and they see you more than your family sees you.

If you don't believe I'm a professional, do not sign me. And if you've signed me on a certain belief, don't question my integrity.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

We take our endorsements seriously.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'