And to be frank, I was pretty appalled by the statements that were used.
"It's a change about which, to be frank, we have very little choice, " he said.
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To be frank, there's a lot going on here, and not all of it is useful.
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You won't feel comfortable at Barclays and, to be frank, we won't feel comfortable with you as colleagues.
"Their message was, to be frank with you, they do not understand why we won't help them, " McCain said.
But neither candidate wants to be frank about why they think this way.
This is about cycling and to be frank it's about all endurance sports.
The Japanese side have decided that the best approach is to be frank.
To be frank, the final debate of this election year captured everything wrong and dejecting about American foreign policy thinking today.
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To be frank, pun intended, I was not particularly familiar with the Piraten party in Germany, so I did some digging.
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To be frank, we're not vacuum experts, but we're probably coming at this from the same angle as the general consumer.
"To be effective, a risk register requires all those involved to be frank and open about potential risk, " Mr Lansley told MPs.
Indeed, a real friend of anyone, including Israel, is supposed to be frank and offer counsel, especially when there is so much at stake.
As a personal observation to be frank, I find it amazing that FactSet was able to find the connection of Rankin to Texas.
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And it's really going to become harmful, to be frank, if gas prices, you know, continue to stay at the level that they are, or even rise higher.
"To be frank, gum has been disappointing for quite some time and it is taking us longer to change the trajectory than we anticipated, " Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld said.
To be frank, though, what he does has changed.
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The fact that such an admission appears in a formal FINRA Arbitration Decision and covers material statements on both the original and amended Form U5 (which are regulatory documents) is, to be frank, astounding.
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The Tories are in a coalition: much better to be frank about the (relatively few) compromises that position involves than to try to pretend that Lib Dem policies like Lords reform are somehow Tory ones.
To be frank, my favorite notification method implemented on any mobile OS is the status bar on Android, mainly because it's easily accessible and navigable the vast majority of the time (it gets hidden in certain apps).
They need to find extra money from somewhere, because Italy's financing requirements just next year could exhaust almost half of the EFSF's promised extra firepower - and, to be frank, there are still technical obstacles to the EFSF actually securing that firepower.
The calculation appears to be that frank words about what would be needed for peace was possible because he had worked hard to establish his credentials as Israel's friend.
That is all very complicated, and to be quite frank about it, we do not understand all of that.
Later, when I wrote about the case for the New Yorker, I found staff members to be remarkably frank -- not just about Bouwer's crimes, but about their own institution's shortcomings.
We know what happens when families don't get the correct support, and to be perfectly frank, families will end up in such a terrible state in reaching crisis point that it could be a matter of life and death for some of these families.
So for them to say that 300 units are available as if this is private market and you could just put an ad in the paper and say that these units are ready, is a - is being dishonest to be quite frank with you.
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"I think all of those remarks were disgusting, to be perfectly frank because, of course, President Bush cares about everyone in our country, and I know that, " Laura Bush told a journalist with American Urban Radio Networks on one of her flights to survey damage in Mississippi.
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The Chinese media appear to be becoming more frank in their reports and more robust in their criticism of government agencies.
And he seemed to be honest and frank after the midterm elections in telling them, the Republican leaders in private, look, I need to do a better job on this.
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