Quotes About Transparency

This guy is the real thing," one of them said. "I never cared anything about politics before, but Wallace ain't the same as the others. He don't sneak around the bush. He just comes right out and says it.

All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we can see it.

If I lose control, you'll be the first to know. I'm quite perturbed by the idea.

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most of it. Now that was an interesting thought. Heh.

I'd appreciate it if in the future when you come up with a plan that makes a hardened criminal pause, you could at least give me the gist of it ahead of time. In broad strokes.

Yes, I want your bullshit.

Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.

The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

I've been very honest with the press, even when I had work done on my face. A lot of people would cover that up. I want to be a voice for young women. I want to empower them. I've been through a lot, and I want to send them a relatable message.

For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

You have to be honest, even when you are upset with your child. Your intentions must be clear. You must never lie to your child.

Sometimes you will hear me say right on the air, 'You just cited a poll that is not even part of Real Clear Politics,' which is an average, an aggregate. Yours is seeming to be an outlier. Give me the name of that poll and the date that it was taken. I will say it right on the air.

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

I think if you're an interesting person, you don't have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

One of the initiatives I have pursued in Parliament has been to make it easier for the public to see what their MPs do in the House of Commons by removing the ban on Parliamentary filming appearing on YouTube or similar web sites.