DOBBS: Bernard Kerik, as always, straight-talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2005] Reference

DOBBS: Come on, we're straight-talking people here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005] Reference

But the straight-talking John McCain had one answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2004] Reference

With us right now is a brave, straight-talking survivor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2009] Reference

SESNO: Joe Guinn (ph) is a straight-talking Louisiana native.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007] Reference

Go with your straight-talking gut and pick you good friend Joe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Backers In Pennsylvania Meet Privately With Top McCain Adviser] Reference

The straight-talking 63-year-old has been down this road before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motown Mechanic] Reference

It was a blunder for a man running as a straight-talking reformer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From The Brink] Reference

You want a straight-talking pit bull or a cute little French poodle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2006] Reference

MCCARTNEY: She's a pretty straight-talking lady, by the sounds of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2004] Reference

SESNO (voice-over): Joe Gwynn is a straight-talking Louisiana native.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006] Reference

Holland Taylor has become fascinated by the straight-talking Richards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holland Taylor: A Class Act's Next Tough Dame] Reference

The straight-talking military man has little to say about interdiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War On Addiction] Reference

A former Army Ranger, Shimkus is a tall, straight-talking West Pointer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Secret Life] Reference

And the mostly favorable coverage cast him as a straight-talking maverick.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007] Reference

The straight-talking Scot was given the top job at BT in June 2008, succeeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting Spark Back in BT] Reference

He had -- I think it was Senator Kyl on, straight-talking supporter of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2007] Reference

He wants to be the adored, straight-talking maverick icon of American politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: McCain To Announce VP Right After Dem Convention] Reference

LEMON: Actor Tyler Perry's famous straight-talking character Medea, you know her.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2007] Reference

BLITZER: He had some tough talk last night on "60 Minutes," very straight-talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007] Reference

The chemistry, the interaction, very smooth, very straight-talking in that meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man in the Middle] Reference

The straight-talking Texan has a way of making sense out of confusing emotional stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2002] Reference

The bottom line: the straight-talking "Idol" judge is staying put for a long time to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005] Reference

And the two faces of John McCain, straight-talking maverick or people-pleasing party loyalist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006] Reference

On Tuesday night, Obama walked a narrow line between straight-talking wise man and cheerleader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change of Tone] Reference

I don't think that straight-talking conservatives have told John McCain that is not straight talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2008] Reference

If only City had a straight-talking man of the people like Phil Collins to cut out all this nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Easy Option; and Big Talk] Reference

A truly straight-talking politician would tell the voters to look to themselves -- to their own lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

A good deal of the credit for that goes to Ensler, a straight-talking New Yorker in an Anna Wintour bob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve Ensler Uses The V Word] Reference

Instead, I've begun to listen to the straight-talking killers at the front of the class with growing trepidation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boot Camp For Gonzos] Reference

Sure, the straight-talking president of Toyota is weathering the same storm buffeting all the world's automakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [38: Katsuaki Watanabe] Reference

Ripken is the oddest of contemporary public figures, a straight-talking, non-philandering, hard-working character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diamond Jubilee] Reference

His reputation as a straight-talking tough guy took him to a surprising third-place finish in the 1996 presidential election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting In The Wings] Reference

Miliband rounded on Cameron's comments, claiming there was a "big difference between straight-talking and being a loudmouth".    From Wordnik.com.  [David Miliband attacks 'loudmouth' Cameron over Pakistan comments] Reference

It's simply this: he's a straight-talking, anti-Iraq-war, liberal guy that they like, a candidate who speaks for millions of Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL: RUN, DEAN, RUN?] Reference