Quotes About Transparency

JB's mind is like an open book with maybe two words per page.)

I didn't like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a player, I wanted to know where I was lacking in my game and where I could improve in order to get back in the team.

The reason Strapping Young Lad was such a good band was we were honest about what we were doing.

I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

The jig is up: I'm not a nice lady.

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

I basically started to adopt the mentality of, I'm going to say what I'm going to say. I'm not going to apologize about it. At the very least, y'all are going to know what I'm thinking.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

To President Biden's credit, I mean, he kind of - he says, if you mess up, fess up. And if you, you know, don't have the answer, don't make it up. And I follow that.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

I don't care what level you are, there is the need to offer straight talk when you're working with clients. You have to have the courage to deliver tough messages.

I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.'

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.

I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

Mike Tomlin, man, is one of the realest coaches out there. He keeps everything real; he keeps it 100. He doesn't lie to you. He doesn't sugarcoat anything. And that's what I like about him.

That Hillary Clinton can be president of the United States and a Saudi prince can donate $10 or $15 million dollars, let's say, to the Clinton Foundation and then have access for meetings and policy with the U.S. government, that is something that is very important to me.