Quotes About Transparency

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

We are bringing technology into governance in a very big way. This is making governance easy, effective, economic and transparent.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Her face looks like a room with no drapes or shades.

I want to be honest; I think it gets you further and also makes you feel better about yourself.

Alas, it has had to be that I am only able---except on a few rare occasions---to look at nature through dirty net curtains hanging before very dusty windows. And it's no pleasure looking through these any longer, because nature is just the one thing that really must be unadulterated.

When people know you too well, they eventually see your damage, your weirdness, carelessness, and mean streak. They see how ordinary you are after all, that whatever it was that distinguished you in the beginning is the least of who you actually are. This will turn out to be the greatest gift we can offer another person: letting them see, every so often, beneath all the trappings and pretense to the truth of us.

We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.

We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.

We write to expose the unexposed

What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, "This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage