Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Immigrants aren’t the reason wages haven’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.