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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.


Walter Lippmann

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
RICHARD WHATELY Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest
GREGORY NUNN The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not...
ROBERT E. LEE Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE Honesty is the best policy.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Honesty is the best policy.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said tha...
CRISS JAMI Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
SEAN COVEY Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dish...
GEORGE CARLIN Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their as...
TARIF NAAZ Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
KELLY ROWLAND Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
STEVE LANDESBERG Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is ...
DAVID SHIELDS The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to ...
WALTER LIPPMANN In my experience, honesty is the best policy. And being a friend to somebody is not always the best ...
JILLIAN MICHAELS This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Honesty is always the best policy. You always want to take accountability.
LISA MININNI Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Honesty is the best Policy, unless you could save more money with Geico.
ROBERT GRAYSON SENTER People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to particip...
MA YING-JEOU The best policy is to declare victory and leave.
GEORGE AIKEN In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
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MARK TWAIN Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the wor...
EPICTETUS We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best po...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the be...
GEORGE WASHINGTON We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best po...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and...
GERALD R. FORD In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and...
GERALD FORD Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of any school board member is a policy making role, not daily operations. He was not ele...
BILL BIRD In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dis...
KAPIL DEV Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of t...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is not much difference between the first rush policy and the devils push policy. However there...
APURVA GAGLANI Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a fo...
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TONY D'SOUZA It is the best of a win-win situation, ... It is both humanitarian foreign policy and humanitarian d...
DAN GLICKMAN He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud...
CHANAKYA We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll neve...
C.S. LEWIS We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but...
VINCENT MCNABB A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON The Government does not have a policy on this, neither, to the best of my knowledge, did the previou...
JOHN DRINKWATER He may not be as heavy-handed with policy decisions. The outcomes of the meetings may be more democr...
LAURENCE MEYER My read on it would be, yes, (Howard) is paving the way for a possible change of policy. Whether he ...
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YASUNARI UENO His comments suggest that the BOJ would not end its policy at the February meeting, but he did not d...
TAKUJI AIDA As the government is growing increasingly receptive to the idea of a policy shift, the central bank ...
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NOAM CHOMSKY It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that ...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON So as long as he doesn't say anything too provocative, Beijing's wait-and-see policy is likely to co...
CHU SHULONG Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover fo...
ROMANO PRODI This does not involve a change in the stance of monetary policy. It is a technical change,
EDWARD GRAMLICH While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important...
BURTON RICHTER An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household; and even ...
THUCYDIDES I would describe Stephen then pretty much as I would describe him now. He is a very serious person. ...
GOLDY HYDER We're not presuming that this is the policy of the judicial branch or the legislative branch, althou...
KEVIN HALL It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter ...
JOHN DENHAM Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look, he is the governor of Texas, not someone who is setting our international policy.
JOE LOCKHART Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spe...
NANCY SNOW The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually thr...
ERNST JüNGER Fukui's comments may be slightly negative for the bond market. He is likely to lay the groundwork fo...
KOJI SHIMAMOTO It is being discussed but, as of today, the policy has not changed. This is a process with legal and...
LORI FOGLEMAN We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up ...
SCOTT NEARING Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade p...
STEPHEN F. LYNCH It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a g...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti...
LEO TOLSTOY The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI But that revolution did not happen overnight and it did not happen because of September 11. He used,...
DMITRI TRENIN The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a polic...
ANN COULTER Any suggestion as to where inflationary pressures still lie could offer direction with regard to int...
CLAIRE COLLINGWOOD Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER The French minister is entitled to her own opinion. However her opinion does not accurately characte...
JIM TURNER He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dime...
DENIS MACSHANE There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the ...
RICHARD CECIL The American president's remarks not only showed that he does not have the ability to learn from his...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI It is in our policy to facilitate their movement into the system so that their education is not as i...
JANE RILEY Conservatives need to be just as skeptical of government claims made about foreign policy as they ar...
THOMAS WOODS No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a...
UNKNOWN Mark brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to practices as well as games. Not only does he ha...
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IAN GUNNER While the report does not make it a certainty, it increases the probability that the Fed will leave ...
GARY SCHLOSSBERG Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.
DAVID IGNATIUS Our message is that, purely as a public policy, the death penalty fails.
ABE BONOWITZ Today's debate revolves just as much about our values as it does about policy-making. Providing heal...
DAN MISTICH ... the mere fact that it's constitutional, does not mean that it's good policy.
GRIFFIN BELL If honesty is the best policy, surely Michigan's accurately described, fully disclosed college affir...
JUDY WOODRUFF Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that w...
GARY HERBERT He is absolutely credible as a candidate. The hardcore policy wonks and opinion-makers are extremely...
JACK CORRIGAN Our guess is that Greenspan will try to leave his successor with as clean a slate as possible, both ...
LOU CRANDALL Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense o...
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WALTER BECKER It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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