Sean Spicer Quotes

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

If politicians throwing mud begin to slip in it, perhaps they will head for higher ground.

I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

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.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I've spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.

That's part and parcel of touring England. You have to be very street smart and on your game. If you're not, the media and the ECB will have a field day with you.

The day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Furthermore, when there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called. And I see that the administration has become much more aggressive on that front [of retraining people who get displaced].

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

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.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

Always keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you'll have to eat them. Always remember, as you go out to seek your fortune, your fame, your fulfillment, always remember that it's not who you know in this world, it's whom.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.