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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.