To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.
You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
The men and women that I've worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I've ever met.
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.
Let's be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much.
We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never invited or courted attention. I think if you act normal, then people will treat you normally. If you go around with a big entourage all the time, you're not staying true to yourself.
I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.
I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.
To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'
You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.
All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.
To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
