Credibility Loss Quotes

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

In matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril.

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.

Policy flip-flops debase the currency of United States credibility.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

When you make a threat and do not do it, you lose tremendous credibility globally.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

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

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules. You have to operate by the rules of the system, and if you don't, if you pull rank, then you lose all your credibility.

Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

Few things detract more from your credibility and the respect of your colleagues and peers than being called on the carpet to deflect accusations and defend an untruth.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.

When the public sees us taking sides—and the public definitely sees it—we lose the only reason we had any influence with the public in the first place: our credibility. We become just another partisan voice in a cacophonous chorus, one more basement blogger.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

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

With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.