“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy.”

“Honesty in its widest sense is always admirable. The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world”

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.”

“Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”

“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”

“Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city …”

“I believe that we must not waste this moment. A responsible foreign policy must look outward from a stance of forward engagement, to our broadest hopes for the world — not just inward, to our narrowest fears.
A responsible foreign policy must harness all our economic and military might — but it must also make use of our values and principles.”

“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.”