“This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.”
Senator John Kerry
“What do you prefer: brutal honesty or humane lies?”
Robert W. Merriweather
“It's highly, highly critical of his reliability. They should have the truth before them, his prior conviction for dishonesty. There is no crime that's more probative than lying to a jury.”
James Senescu
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
Plato
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
John Steinbeck
“Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.”
Lesley Conger
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Benjamin Franklin
