credibility damage Quotes

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

I think Sepp Blatter is in danger...or has reached a point now, where he is being mocked within the game. Whether he's getting too old, I don't know. But things can happen to people in power. Look at some of the despots in Africa... From a position of great power, he has uttered so many ridiculous statements that he is in danger of seriously damaging his credibility.

I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice. And if he says that Hillary Clinton is worse than a openly racist, Muslim-hating misogynist who wants to build a wall to exclude Mexicans, who thinks that a judge, an American judge because of his Mexican lineage cannot be fair to him, if you're saying that Hillary Clinton is worse than all that, then I just think that that just is ridiculous, it's absurd, and it really starts to damage the speaker's credibility.

Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.