Quotes About Transparency

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWERS.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

IF WE WANT to heal, we have to start getting honest with ourselves and others. Creating the possibility for more truth is up to each of us.

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.

If it was up to me, I'd get rid of Twitter to stop the fake profiles and people saying and doing what they want.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they get the heart going.

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

I am not good with PR or in projecting a certain image of myself, and I don't give clarifications about rumours; that's it.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

Above all else, protect your brand. If you or your company doesn't live up to your brand's promise, own up to your error.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

I have been public on this, and I firmly, firmly believe that this notion of accountability for what you promise as a leader is as important as your integrity.