Quotes About Transparency

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The give-and-take went on through dinner. It didn't surprise Noah at all that Ellie told him anything he wanted to know—she had been that way since the minute they met. She was unflinchingly honest. What surprised him was that he was so open. He rarely

In our family, we don't hide crazy...we put it on the porch and give it a cocktail.

Are you trying not to give me information? Or is cryptic your only way of communicating?

It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

It is about time that we discard all bunkum--

And all officeholders, whether chosen by lot or elected, were held closely to account.

Management wizard Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great and Built to Last, argues that what must glaringly separate great companies from mediocre ones is the latter's tendency "to explain away the brutal facts rather than to confront the brutal facts head-on.

Trust opens people up to give you the truth, rather than just telling you what you want to hear.

the accountable person looks for every opportunity to self-report. They are eager to review progress; they aren't afraid of it. Before

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

it. That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

No Hiding from God

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

Ronald Kessler

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all—and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.

I really believe that to live inauthentically is to live in a sort of hell.

When you write, you should put your skin on the table.

but I'll be honest was an indication of guilt, right up there with ly words.

Unsere Zivilisation ist durch das Wort Fortschritt charakterisiert. Der Fortschritt ist ihre Form nicht eine ihrer Eigenschaften daß sie fortschrietet. Sie ist typisch aufbauend. Ihre Tätigkeit ist es ein immer komplizierteres Gebilde zu konstruieren. Und auch die Klarheit dient doch nur wieder diesem Zweck und ist nicht Selbstzweck. Mir dagegen ist die Klarheit, die Durchsichtigkeit, Selbstzweck.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.