Public Honesty Quotes

Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

We need more honesty out there, but it is hard when you see what the media does to someone who is trying to be honest.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

We need to be honest with the American people about the problems and the challenges ahead and the solutions that are needed to fix them. And I would argue it's the president who has been missing in action on this front. He knows we have a debt crisis coming. All independent experts show us this. And so he hasn't even given us a budget yet. I mean, the law required that he was supposed to submit a budget the first Monday in February.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.