Theodore White Quotes

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

I gave Romney some advice. I said “Mitt, just relax and be one of your selves.”

Whatever I say is so honest when I'm doing interviews.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

People are more interested in someone who goes on stage and tells the truth.

Trump has not masked who he is. Trump has not behaved like the Democrats do. He does not go out and camouflage. He doesn't present a side of him that isn't real. He doesn't lie to people about what he believes. Although he has broken a serious promise. And he's got some immigration people that voted for him that are a little angry about that. That must be mentioned. But other than that, Trump voters know Trump is who he is. He doesn't act, he doesn't put on a front, he doesn't make up things - as opposed to the Democrats who can't be honest about who they are.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

You get nothing but the truth from me.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.