Lee H. Hamilton Quotes

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

Credibility is not a renewable resource in Washington.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

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

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

There’s no institution that you can trust all the time.

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

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.

Our ability to be believed is at risk. The F.B.I. must be able to stand on any corner in the U.S. or before any jury and be believed.

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.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.

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.

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.

We take our endorsements seriously.

The truth will only be told over a career.

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?

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I want my clients to trust me.