Quotes About Transparency

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it.

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it. He's not running computer analytics to tell you what you want to hear and then do whatever the special interests tell him what they want him to do in the end.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

I just have an inability to lie.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.

I feel bad to keep someone hanging. So if I'm not inclined to do a film, I am forthright about my decision.

The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes.

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

Harvard professor Amy Edmondson dubbed this sense of being free to speak your mind "psychological safety." It's hard to overstate its value. Psychological safety boosts morale, fosters improvements, and ensures that, in Andrew Wolstenholme's words, "bad news travels fast"—so problems can be tackled quickly.

remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.

To be naked is to be without disguises.

With [D. T.] Suzuki, Zen coopted the whole field of Japanese culture and, imposing on Japanese ideology the myth of transparency, claimed the status of a transcendental spirituality. With Nishida [Kitar?] and the Kyoto school, Zen acquired a crosscultural philosophical status. Thus, through the work of Suzuki, Nishida and their successors, a new field of discourse was created—one that differs markedly from the earlier Chan/Zen discourse (s) it claimed to replicate or interpret.

people have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror

CSR begins "at home". A paramount measure of an effectively responsible company lies in its human resources policies. When companies proclaim CSR outwardly but acts contrarily inwardly, there is no true CSR. Instead, it is an inconsistency that will burst out into pieces.

The American people were sick and tired of endless "negotiations." They were sick and tired of politicians hiding behind closed doors. They wanted the Senate to vote on legislation to improve their lives. At the very least, they had a right to know where their senators stood on the issues. But Senate leaders preferred to do nothing rather than "divide" their caucus by exposing the pro-corporate stances of a handful of their Democratic colleagues.

The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days.

Facts are facts, whisper them or shout them.