Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength, hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

The American people, since 1932, continue to insist on two requisites of private enterprise, and the relationship of Government to it. The first is complete honesty...and the second is sincere respect.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.