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Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.