Gwen Ifill Talks About Honesty [Video]

Gwen Ifill talks about Honesty. From the series “Real Character/Real People: Profiles in Honesty.”

Transcript provided by YouTube (unedited)

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honesty is doing the best thing you can
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to be clear
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through with people or in any situation
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this is Washington week and now here’s
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moderator when I phone tonight we devote
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our program to ace I’m a career
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journalist was their reaction at the
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court I am the moderator of managing
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editor of Washington week on PBS the
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senior correspondent at the newshour
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with jim lehrer today when we get to the
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White House press room if I had a nickel
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for every rumor I mean I just believe
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ninety-five percent of what people say
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about the court because ninety-five
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percent of the time it’s false
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journalism we’re in pursuit of some sort
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of idea of what the truth is the truth
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turns out to be this really invasive
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goal we can’t always get there and we
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can’t always get to people who will
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share it with us is there some sense
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that they are relieved that she is
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stepping down or you have to ask again
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and again in every possible different
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way to get near the truth of something
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if someone comes out and gives you the
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true answer or the closest they can come
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to the true answer there’s some
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integrity and honesty in that and that’s
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an ideal day when you get someone who
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has a sense of integrity you are much
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more likely to get honesty from others
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if you give it to them the truth is
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whether we are honest or not we do
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always expect it of others we expect
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people to give us the true answer to a
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question if I say unless the question is
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do I look fat in these pants you don’t
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really want honesty that case but if it
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is a question of do I should I go to
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this party even though my mother told me
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to be home at ten o’clock at night
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that’s not the kind of question you know
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what the answer to that question is the
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president appeared today in the Rose
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Garden to talk I still operate by the
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rule though I don’t try not to do
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anything that my mother would be ashamed
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to see me do so that’s how you learn
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about honesty that’s how you learn about
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what’s acceptable the rewards of honesty
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are knowing that you are being true to
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yourself and true to the people around
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you that you were giving to them what
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they expect of you I’ll be answering
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your questions about that and anything
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else you have in mind next thursday at
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noon on my monthly web chat but you have
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to think as you’re trying to go along to
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get along with you
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and fit is how do you want to be known
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the people who are the greatest success
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are the ones who know themselves first
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if you know yourself you’ll know what
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the right thing to do is well join you
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again right here to add it all up next
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week on Washington
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you

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