Quotes About Transparency

People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

Too much of our media, and not just sports media, but media, in general, is one where the people with the voices live in glass houses.

It has been raised many times whether media, corporate houses, sports bodies and NGOs should come under RTI or not. It is not up to you or me to decide. It is up to the government to decide on that.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids' heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own discoveries in shame.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Just make sure that you know what's going on with your money and you know where you money is coming from and how much is coming out and going in.

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

It's not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you'd be somebody else, so don't change who you are.

I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

All those who talk about democracy, freedom, and the rule of law, of human rights, of the fight against corruption are, I believe, important allies.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.

The fact is I don't even have one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks, don't have deposits abroad and don't even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.

You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

Time to drop the illusion.

We're on your side, but we need the truth. The only thing that makes you look bad is you holding out on us.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river.

Slavery, in other words, founded and fixed the meaning of blackness more than any transparent and transhistorical meaning of black skin founded the category of slavery.