If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren’t like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. – Randall Jarrell
For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen. – Rory Stewart
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn’t be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don’t have too many secrets. I’m a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good. – Paul Kane
My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing. – Richard Roxburgh
To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they’re some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words. – Rhys Darby
To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash. – Shawn Mendes
To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me. – Ranbir Kapoor
I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you’re not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that’s a kind of serious moral issue. – Ricky Jay
I’m quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man’s real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. – Robert Sheckley
I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke. – Rush Limbaugh
Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment. – Ron Fournier
We need an honest politician in charge who doesn’t care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions. – Peter Hargreaves
Typically in ‘Game of Thrones,’ people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive. – Richard Madden
Let’s be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there’s a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That’s what’s happening. So what! We’re in style. I mean, that’s silly, but I’m taking full advantage of that. – Paula Garces
When we get to what happens when we die, we don’t have any video footage. So let’s at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are. – Rob Bell
When people say to me don’t the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don’t realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever. – Paul Daniels
Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. – Robert Grosseteste
We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that’s why most Americans are saying, ‘Look, let’s just be honest. Let’s have lower rates, but everybody pays them.’ – Rick Santorum
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. – Rob Bell
I’m that sensitive, honest guy who likes people, wants to know why, and who puzzles everyone by continually putting himself in harm’s way. – Poe Ballantine
I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it. – Shia LaBeouf
The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon – no pun intended – and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do. – Robbie Robertson
Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I’m not proud of it; I’m just being honest. – Rachel Nichols
Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare. – Oscar Hijuelos