Pete Sessions Quotes

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

I do not believe the president’s sex life is any of our business. After 30 years of political reporting I have been unable to establish a link between marital fidelity and high performance in public office. It really doesn’t matter who they screw in private as long as they don’t screw the public.

Please do not vote against a candidate's personal life.

I don't choose projects according to the idea of being a role model. To be considered as one is definitely an honor.

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it's always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that's really to his credit.

I have to be responsible with my character, my image and my reputation.

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!