Margarita Simonyan Quotes

The measure of our [the Voice of America] success will be the degree to which we are believed.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

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

Our ability to be believed is at risk. The F.B.I. must be able to stand on any corner in the U.S. or before any jury and be believed.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.

If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.