Quotes About Transparency

There are those who believe that clumsiness and truthfulness go together. But cumbersomeness does not necessarily imply a sincere heart.

He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

And I knew that if we began holding regular news conferences, there would be no going back.

Many other central banks hold press conferences, some as frequently as monthly, and adopting the practice seemed the natural next step for increasing transparency at the Fed.

The leak annoyed but didn't surprise me; I had learned that's how Washington works.

I did what I could to keep others in the loop on the Lehman negotiations.

Investors were unwilling to buy securities they knew little about.

We were also careful not to advise Lewis on the disclosures to his shareholders about Merrill's losses,

Lehman's condition was probably worse than reported at the time,

Today I wonder whether we should have been more forthcoming, and not only because our vagueness has promoted the mistaken view that we could have saved Lehman.

The idea was watch what I do, not what I say.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

L'onestà politica non è altro che la capacità politica.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Truth is brighter than light.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

If you're an honest person, it reflects on the screen.