Quotes About Transparency

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have to make sometimes.

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.

If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.

The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors.

If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints.

Yeah, I've always been very straightforward when you start dealing with injuries. You always have to communicate with the trainers and the manager and the pitching coach exactly where you're at.

I admire honesty more than any other trait.

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

Mind you, if I were taking money for transfers, I would not have been able to even look the officials in the eye, not to speak of dealing with them with an iron hand, which I have been doing.

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to know what's happening to our data and whether it's being transferred.

We need to transform our system so people know what they are paying for health care, so they know whether they are getting good quality health care, and so they have a reason and ability to care.

Transparency increases credibility and accountability.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

Blockchain is really exciting technology because it's actually providing both transparency but also agility in a contractual relationship that any organization should have.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.