Quotes About Transparency

Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am.

Tanushree is very honest - if she dislikes something she will say it to your face whether you like it or not.

We do ourselves a disservice when we self-servingly massage the record.

The President must not be such a distant person.

When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.

With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Those who were behind conspiracies against me and my government will be exposed.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Not once at ESPN was I ever told not to talk about something and I would extend that beyond my radio show to 'First Take,' as well.

Your character has to be an extension of yourself, and you got to be comfortable in it. Otherwise, people are going to see right through it. They're going to see that you're acting or that you're playing wrestling.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

Fans, and people in general, look to people to take certain things on, and I'm a guy you can take at face value. I speak my mind.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

Facebook has a rule that you're not supposed to be anonymous.