Quotes About Transparency

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.

I try to keep it as honest and real as I can with television crews following me around.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be someone I'm not.

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I think my confidence stems from my honesty. I'm brutally honest - about everything and even myself. I tell it as I think it. I'm not politically correct. I'm definitely not diplomatic. I get bashed up for what I say, but I don't know any other way.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

I'm the kind of guy if you ask me a question I'll tell you the truth if it's hurting me or not. If it's good or bad, I'll cut to the chase and that's the way it is.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

I know that we've had a lot of immigration. How many immigrants are in prison? And what I found was - and I'm a fanatical researcher - what I found was a massive cover-up by both the government and the media in not telling us how many immigrants are in prison.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.