Truthful Leadership Quotes

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.

What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.