Quotes About Transparency

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

He hadn't known her for very long before he realized that she lacked a filter between her brain and her mouth-she simply verbalized every thought that entered her mind.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. —Mother Teresa

If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first.

Lisa Scottoline

History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.

did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. —HARRY S TRUMAN

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

all mistakes are my own

We broadcast one version of ourselves, cropped and filtered and out there for consumption. But the real person is hidden behind that.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

It's the first article in the constitution. 'Access to information shall not be abridged.

Pretty quick I learned that the fans don't give a shit about controversy, they just want real. I give 'em real.

But don't grovel. Don't apologize. Give him the facts

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Don't lie to me, son, said Haskins. When you make a move that ain't called for and plumb necessary, cats will stop eating canned salmon when the tin is off! Loosen up, Jargan, and tell me what you want!

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like. I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.

A heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face. It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.

He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.

Was Lamont's reluctance simple candor—or splendid calculation?

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.