Quotes About Transparency

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

Hillary Clinton is so dishonest she doesn't want people peppering her with questions.

People want to know who is coming into their country and they want to control their own trade and various other things.

The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.

There is no armor made that can withstand the truth. -Karsa Orlong.

We are all glass soldiers.

We want the benefits of intimacy without the risks of transparency. So our lives are always made up of games of hide-and-seek. We want to be found and yet we want to hide from the consequences of being found. Intimacy is the license that you give to someone else to hurt you the most.

Relationships fall apart when the guy turns into a wimp or the girl has no more secrets.

truth is the one thing no one needs to be protected from.

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.

want the benefits of intimacy without the risks of transparency. So our lives are always made up of games of hide-and-seek. We want to be found and yet we want to hide from the consequences of being found. Intimacy is the license that you give to someone else to hurt you the most.

We're desperate to be truly known by others; yet we go to incredible lengths to hide who we really are. We say we want truth, then rationalize it away when it gets too personal.

All information should be free. If you don't have access to the information you need to improve things, how can you fix them? A free exchange of information, particularly when the information was in the form of a computer program, allowed for greater overall creativity.

Even when zeroing in on privacy, they showboated.

The worst way to release bad news is to bury it in the financial statement footnotes, in the hope that no one will see it. A diligent investor or analyst always reads the footnotes, and will not appreciate having to dig so deep to uncover potentially critical information.

The problem was me. I was...I was a pathological liar. Or am, I should say. Lying is like alcoholism, one is always "recovering".

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.