Quotes About Transparency

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.