Quotes About Transparency

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

If the wrong people show their true colors only after reaching our highest offices, Singapore is finished.

Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me.

I want to be me, and the Arizona Cardinals know what they are getting. They are not getting a kid that is going to say stupid things and piss people off unnecessarily. They are going to get a kid that everyone knows who they are getting every single day I walk into the building.

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

If I were to run for office, my skeletons would come dancing out of the closet in a can-can.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.

Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

I'm a very what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of person, and my family always laughs at me. They're like, 'You have minus-zero poker-face skills. We just have to look at your face and we know what's wrong with you.'