Quotes About Transparency

I only speak truth as everything else is a waste of time

Thomas hesitated at first, but he knew he had to tell them everything. And there was no better time than the present. He sucked in a deep breath and started talking.

James Dashner The Death Cure

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

when you have a CEO who is so ingrained in the agency, staff, and each and every one of the clients, you only want to push yourself further." Because Barby is so transparent about her values and vision for the organization, "There's no question," according to Alison, "that people want to follow her.

Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.

I want nothing to be off-limits to God. He can have free access to all that I am, everywhere I go, all the time.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

he would run, the Missouri Senator told Roosevelt's men, "but why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place?

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be to-morrow.

That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.

In Ignatian spirituality there is nothing that you have to put in a box and hide. Nothing has to be feared. Nothing has to be hidden away. Everything can be opened up

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Today, at least $11.7 billion of the approximately $20 billion the CPA ordered sent to Iraq from New York is either unaccounted for or has simply disappeared.

United States, who were certainly invested in stopping the Chinese takeover of Africa. But America had its hands tied, requiring democratic reforms and fiscal transparency before they would offer aid to the DRC. And in a country that was ranked 168 out of 198 on the Corruption Perceptions Index, such reforms were an impossibility.

The truth is often one's best shield.

There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps

faith never foundered that if the people "were taken into the confidence of their government and received a full and truthful statement of what was happening, they would generally choose the right course.

I have ever preferred that a man should tell me face to face that he will or will not do a thing, than to promise to do it and then to not do it.

Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean.