Maria Ressa Quotes

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

I like honesty and fair play.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I want to have a society based on truth. That means no longer hiding what we used to hide.

Publicity is the soul of justice. Without publicity, all other checks are insufficient: in comparison of publicity, all other checks are of small account.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

The rule of law, and the idea that it applies to everyone regardless of what office that person might hold, is the chief ingredient in our democracy.

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.