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It's time to have a candid conversation about whether the American taxpayer is getting the right return for the development of oil and gas resources on public lands. – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We actually found them to be very candid, very frank. – Bendixen Amandi	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Nemtsov was a tireless advocate for his country, seeking for his fellow Russian citizens the rights to which all people are entitled, i admired Nemtsov’s courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia and appreciated his willingness to share his candid views with me when we met in Moscow in 2009. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 10 years ago
As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions, one of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond. – Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. – Tom Carter	added by anonymous 12 years ago
All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others. – Hindu Drama	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... – Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 15 years ago
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend. – David Bissonette	added by anonymous 15 years ago
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. – Helena Rubinstein	added by anonymous 15 years ago
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 15 years ago

It's time to have a candid conversation about whether the American taxpayer is getting the right return for the development of oil and gas resources on public lands.

– Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We actually found them to be very candid, very frank.

– Bendixen Amandi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nemtsov was a tireless advocate for his country, seeking for his fellow Russian citizens the rights to which all people are entitled, i admired Nemtsov’s courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia and appreciated his willingness to share his candid views with me when we met in Moscow in 2009.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
10 years ago

As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions, one of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.

– Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

– John Quincy Adams

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.

– Tom Carter

added by anonymous
12 years ago

All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.

– Hindu Drama

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

– Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
15 years ago

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.

– David Bissonette

added by anonymous
15 years ago

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

– Helena Rubinstein

added by anonymous
15 years ago

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

– Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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