Quotes About Transparency

Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.

For this thing was not done in a corner.

Let love be without dissimulation.

Hurt me with the truth, but never comfort me with a lie.

In vino veritas [In wine is truth].

Don't hang noodles on my ears.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Often it is what we do not say which gives away a flaw in our thinking

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?

They are noted in bold print.

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

Democracy provides the space for open criticism.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.

How much information I want to put out in the public domain is my prerogative.

I have never shied away from the public eye and I chose this profession for myself. I have always been out there and made mistakes, accepted it, accomplished things.