Quotes About Transparency

Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have things out in the open.

People keep things from people all the time.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

It's not wrong to ask questions. And if the prime minister is afraid of the answer, maybe that means you asked the right question. And maybe it means you need to ask more.»

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I'm going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That's my promise. This time I truly mean it.

I think social media has allowed the players to be able to say things that maybe didn't come out right the first time and say what they really meant. I think that it keeps people fair and honest.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.