Quotes About Transparency

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

How can the truth make anything worse?

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

If you go into a room of 100-plus people, and you want to be the prince of darkness, you can be it. But I don't operate in the dark, I operate in the light.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

Living a regret-free life means being honest about everything you did to help create your regrets and honest about how you felt when someone else was hurtful to you.

Be honest in everything you do, and insist on honesty from anyone with whom you share a relationship.