#promised

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#compromised #integrity #refusal #tests #truest

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#anything #arizona #been #believe #borders

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. ↗

— Red Cloud

#i can #kept #land #made #many

When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#completed #constituents #must #our #promised

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#another #engagement #had #happy #husband

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#another #engagement #had #happy #hard

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#good #good food #her #history #i

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#been #better #big #bureaucracies #centralization