You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Honesty is the best policy.
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.
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.