Quotes About Transparency

a relationship that wasn't built on honesty and trust wasn't any kind of relationship at all.

People always tell you that they want you to be honest with them. But they're lying. Nobody wants that. Honesty sucks. That's why the word honesty is always preceded by other words, like brutal and painful.

I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.

those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts], Virginia said heatedly. Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth. She shook her head. They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!

Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn't change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department. - John Barrett Jr.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

And good administrators?" "Oh, they depend on verbal orders. They never lie about what they've done if their verbal orders cause problems, and they surround themselves with people able to act wisely on the basis of verbal orders. Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.

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Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?

More than one government has fallen because people discovered the real extent of official wealth.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

Now air can get through.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.