Quotes About Transparency

I don't have any secrets. I know my style of football and sometimes it's pretty simple.

I live my life online: I don't have many secrets.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.

I'm not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

I believe the U.S. government owes it to the American people to tell them the truth about what is happening in Guantanamo.

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

There are things I'll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there's always a few secret pages in the back that nobody will be able to read.

Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

I'm pale, and people need to accept that I'm almost see-through.

I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things.

My life is an open pamphlet.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.