I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
I have always liked to speak to people very directly.
When you look at my campaign, I don't go around sugarcoating things.
You have to, you need to be hard with each other. When things aren't going right you need to tell each other, otherwise it's going to be too easy.
Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.
I'm George Takei, and I'm straight... up asking you to vote.
When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.
If you're born and raised a New Yorker, you're probably pretty to-the-point, and you don't care so much about hurting people's feelings as you do about saying what's on your mind, because you assume they'll get over it.
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.
Keep it real by being straight forward. Don't pull no punches on people. It's better to tell somebody than just lollygag around, letting them think they're living their life the right way. Because some people don't know what the hell they're doing, they don't know if they're living the right way or making the right decisions. Some people don't know that.
I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
When you walk into my classroom, I'm going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that's the only way to prepare you for the real world.
Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.
I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
Donald Trump doesn't speak like a politician, and that's made some people uncomfortable. In a world of political correctness run amok, his straight talk has been a breath of fresh air.
I've been known not to bite my tongue.
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
The whole straight talk thing, which John McCain kind of turned into a slogan at one point in one of his presidential campaigns, what that is, is a symptom of somebody who has no time for messing around. Because he's trying to get stuff done constantly.
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
