Quotes About Transparency

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

Telling the truth matters. Especially at a college.

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

If you hear that my soul mate still tells one or more of his exes he loves her, I want to know. Audio recording is preferable.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'

Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't take your eyes off somebody who always tells the truth. She's the most honest person I've ever met.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Barely six months after Ribbon Creek, Krulak had lost eleven Marines in another training accident. How he handled the incident is an example of the public relations axiom, "Tell the truth. Tell it all. And tell it quickly.

Plus, he was a plainspoken man. Four decades later, when former Mistys were interviewed, they to a man spoke of Day's bluntness. "He called a spade a fucking spade," one said.