Quotes About Transparency

Sean Chercover

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

t's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

We believe that advertising is just another form of information, and consumers should be able to get that information in whatever form they like.

The newspaper of today far too often rush into print with stories that are essentially little more than tips, or hints of something toxic or criminal. For lack of time, money or skilled staff, we are besiege with "he said, she said".

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sometimes I say things I shouldn't. I guess I'm too outspoken.

Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.

Most people live their entire lives with their clothes on, and even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Then there are those who cannot put them on. They are the ones who live their lives not just as people but as examples of people. They are destined to expose every part of themselves, so the rest of us can know what it means to be a human.

Unwilling to be naked, I had made her naked instead.

One can't long stay a secret to the self" -H.W. Marsworth

Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.

the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves... ...We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.

Think what you want about me Billie. You're the only part of my life that hasn't been a lie.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

Honesty is better than any easy comfort.