Quotes About Transparency

Ultimately, you will create transparency. When how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

Families is like windows with curtains. Some folks keep the curtains pulled back. Most open and close them from time to time, and some don't ever pull them back and you don't never get no look inside.

The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.

One of the most infuriating traits of some philanthropoids is their practice of dragging out grantmaking decisions beyond any reasonable time frame, while failing to offer any clear signals about the real likelihood of approval. When the proposal has been solicited by the foundation in the first place—which is usually the case nowadays—this behavior is even more reprehensible.

Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

Relationships work best if we are honest about not wanting the truth.

If you let me into your soul, let yourself be inside mine, you'll always see me more clearly than anyone.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

This is called "publication bias."7 Of all the studies drug companies carry out, 40 percent are never released to the public, and lots more are only released selectively, with any negative findings left on the cutting room floor.

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Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

When you are following me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that's pretty cool.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

I've always lived my life the way I wanted and been honest with myself and everyone around me.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?