Quotes About Transparency

There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.

I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the truth, and there is no way you're going to let them off the hook.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I certainly tried to make the House a more open and effective place, and I believe I succeeded.

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide them.

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.

I think, as human beings, we try to hide our flaws and try to present this perfect person, this person we wish we were, to our spouse when that causes so many troubles.

If you start collecting the plastic that has gone into our Bollywood bodies, I can fill three trucks outside this very building. At least I'm honest enough to admit to it.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.