James Comey Quotes

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.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Credibility is what it is ALL about.

The truth will only be told over a career.

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

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

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

Credibility is not a renewable resource in Washington.

Like confidence, legitimacy can vanish in a hurry and once lost, is very difficult to regain.

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

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

It matters if people believe you or not.

People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.

We take our endorsements seriously.

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.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

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

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.