Straightforwardness Quotes

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

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.

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

I know the pros and cons of being absolutely blunt.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

I have always liked to speak to people very directly.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

How can I not be straightforward? I’m not a nobody. A somebody like me needs to handle things in a straight forward manner.

Say only what you mean.

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.

I've never been a guy who has said 'OK' about stuff. That's not me. That's not my personality. If I think something's wrong, I express that.