Quotes About Transparency

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The press is supposed to serve as a check on government.

The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.

In times of crisis, we are made to feel we should scrutinise our government's actions less closely, when surely that's when we should pay closest attention.

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

The surface is all you get of me.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

I've had a lot of plastic surgery, and I'm completely honest about it.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.

I definitely think it's important to share my process when it comes to the bottom surgery, because that information really isn't out there.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Something that would probably surprise my fans is that I wear contact lenses, and nobody really knows that because I guess I've never really had to tell anybody about that.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.