The more cynical people become about the honesty of politicians, the more they value straight talking.
If we're to believe Gordon Brown, though, spin is out, straight talking in.
He was straight talking and one thing I always admired about him, he never changed his accent, which is very difficult living in a place like Belfast.
India's obsession with stars, as former Australian captain Ian Chappell argues, makes it difficult for selectors and the captain to do some straight talking to the legends.
Australia is regarded by Norwegians as being a young, English-speaking nation populated by friendly, outdoor-loving people who enjoy their beer, are known for straight talking, but have their hearts "in the right place".
He now has to show that he is more than that stock figure, the peppery military man, admired for straight talking but lacking the suppleness of mind to dominate the stage at the end.
Others are impressed by his straight talking approach.
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The Tories will have gambled that, more than anything, voters want straight talking from those who would govern them, and with a stable lead over Labour of ten points or more, they can afford to risk being a little less popular.
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His rare pronouncements on the two main national issues of the past few weeks show him failing to use opportunities for straight talking: he was late in criticising Congress's Kosovo votes, and did little to lead public debate about gun laws and youth violence in the wake of the high-school killings in Littleton, Colorado.
The king comes across as a down-to-earth, straight-talking guy with a passion for adventure.
He knows that will take a long time, but the straight-talking governor is on his way.
High time, he cried, for a straight-talking doctor to stand up for the real America.
Duncan, Ginobili and Parker have played their entire careers for the same delightfully straight-talking coach, Gregg Popovich.
In Frank Capra's 1948 State of the Union, Spencer Tracy plays a straight-talking businessman having an affair with Angela Lansbury.
With four decades of culinary experience behind her, it's the straight-talking clarity of her language that makes her books so successful.
It was designed as a symbol of communication, interaction and openness, ushered in by a straight-talking mayor with a businessman's bent.
Mark Murphy, the President and CEO of the Packers, is one of the smartest, honest, straight-talking team executives I have ever met.
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He also has a reputation for straight-talking that verges on the reckless.
The service, and the straight-talking Mr Bertolaso, a doctor who once managed hospitals in conflict zones, seemed to embody the best of Italy.
Straight-talking Carrie, who led her pride and joy round the parade ring at Haydock as little daughter Hannah watched from her pushchair, may have fewer qualms.
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That may be a by-product of his straight-talking nature and his supreme confidence, which mean he sees no need to pull punches or partake in false modesty.
Moreover, he is most clearly the man for the post-Clinton moment, the anti-Gore: clean, heroic, straight-talking, likely to stand up strongly for democracy's interests around the globe.
Phillips' columns were published in an era when newspaper readers began to prize straight-talking, pithy advice about marriages, children, jobs -- just about anything that troubled people.
Bush presents himself as a straight-talking Texan who does not mince words or parse meanings, does not run late or overeat or flirt with women not his wife.
College Bound and Gagged is the straight-talking survival guide for anyone (read: parents) who are trying desperately to navigate the pre-college time and remain sane in the process.
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The strongest relationship of all appears to be the one Mr. Christie shared with his mother, a straight-talking Democrat who had no tolerance for complaints from her children about their modest circumstances.
Second, he frequently makes contradictory statements, which may do him no harm in Indonesia's main island of Java, where oblique utterances are the norm, but which infuriate the straight-talking people of Aceh.
By contrast, those who refuse to stoop to sanitised corporatese may cannily use their gaffes to burnish popular, straight-talking personas - as US Vice President Joe Biden and London Mayor Boris Johnson have managed to do.
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