Quotes About Transparency

I've always been of the opinion that if people could just bring themselves to say "I don't know" when they don't know, we'd all live longer and have to listen to a whole lot less bullshit. But that's not how people are. People hate to say "I don't know." They'll speculate, gesticulate, and just plain make up shit to avoid saying the words out loud.

The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?

There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie.

People who say what they think are never going to ambush you with long-fermented resentments, and obsessive people don't get bored. They know how to make their own fun.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I think it's extremely important that the citizens of Wisconsin know the positions I'm taking.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Maybe politically it wasn't wise but when people have different view points I think the public has a right to hear it and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points.

I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.