Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.
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Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Honesty is the best policy.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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