Quotes About Transparency

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

Being clear and straightforward about who we are, what we want from others, and our intentions is the cornerstone of integrity.

Imagine that your mouth is a water spout. When you open the valve (speak), whatever comes out is an indicator of what's inside of you.

there are ways to be dishonest that fall short of actual lying.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

every minute which passes at the beginning of a meeting before you announce your real intentions will generate either suspicion or caution.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

I'm not ashamed of my personal life.

When I had other things to deal with in my personal life, people were telling me to come and play for Scotland. So I'd come but then not play. I'd prefer people just to be honest with me and say whether they really want me there or just as a back-up.

I'm pretty open as far as my personal life is concerned.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

There is no doubt that there is a very strange phenomenon called the 'State Comptroller.'

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

People can see through a phony.

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

People know what I look like. I take photos on my own, and I don't edit them, so people know.

I put up lots of photos with no make-up because it's really important that people see this is what I actually look like.