Quotes About Transparency

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

I am really bad at holding my tongue, because it comes naturally for me to say what's on my mind.

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.

When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn't always like what he had to say, but he stuck to it.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.

Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

To be honest, there is going to be no 'Top Boy America.'

I've always engaged in open, honest communication. There's no topic that can't be discussed.

I think with being so honest and real with not just the guys I was having relationships with but with America, I have a lot to give, so I'm excited to be able to use my platform to continue talking to people about these topics that I had to deal with on national television.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they'd only just confessed!

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.