Credibility Quotes - Page 3

• We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

  Anna Lindh

  Political, Reform, Needs

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• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Country, Integrity, Independent

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• I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

  Dominic Monaghan

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Fighting, Issues, People

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• President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

  Bill Maher

  Father, President, Comedy

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

  Ed Harris

  War, Iraq, Media

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• General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Giving, Wish, Needs

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Loss, Thinking, Two

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• If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.

  Chris Lehane

  Successful, People, Expectations

  "Crisis PR Expert: BP Disaster is 'Unspinnable'". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 3, 2010.

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• As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

  John le Carre

  Lying, Government, Looks

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”"". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

  Voltaire

  Government, Giving, Opinion

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• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Succeed, Journalism

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• It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Winning, Effort, Lost

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• The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been the fact of Russian hacking. The cyber world is full of information gathering, you know, propaganda, et cetera. I have been concerned about the degree to which, in some circles, you've seen people suggest that Vladimir Putin has more credibility than the U.S. government. I think that's something new.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Circles, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

  Walter E. Williams

  School, College, Degrees

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.208, Hoover Institution Press

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• Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

  Gerry Spence

  Feelings, Argument, Willingness

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• Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Honesty, Lying, Self

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Ideas, Should

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2006.

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• In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

  Janet Yellen

  Teaching, Government, Inspire

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• We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

  John McCain

  Self, Doubt, Assets

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• The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men's testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Life Changing, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.181, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

  Cher

  Be Good, Wanted

  "New Again: Cher". Interview with Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Struggle, Rights

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• Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility.

  Pope Francis

  Faithful, Church, Life Is

  "Pope Francis to priests: Practice what you preach". www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

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• If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

  Adam Gopnik

  People, World, Causes

  "No more Mr. Tough Guy" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.

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