Gil Penchina Quotes

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Lying was a way of life. The solution to the problem is ultrasimple: tell the truth, no matter how painful.

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

Tell the truth and run.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

I cannot deceive my people.

It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.

I would never lie about another professional.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.