Quotes About Transparency

I followed the 1.2 million people with my hand. Never faked anything. Never bought any followers or anything like that. So anything on my social media is a hundred percent real.

I am not a person who will mince words.

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

I think PR people are caught in this mindset of 'control of the message.' There's a lot more freedom if you give up control. If you allow people to say things that are genuine and admit mistakes and get on.

My own view is that only under very limited circumstances, and on a case-by-case basis, should we make advance policy decisions to artificially minimize information or censor it from the public's view.

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.

You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Filtering out discordant facts in the media and refusing to release raw data on which some favored conclusion has been reached—whether about the supposed success of affirmative action in college admissions or the conclusiveness of the case for catastrophic global warming—are all part of the pattern of preempting issues rather than confronting them.

The real issue at the Capitol Ministries fund-raiser is that the proponents of this antidemocratic vision no longer seem to feel the need to disguise their ambitions. They, too, are getting ready to king.

Yet Roddy at least had always been forthright with her. Though she suspected he hid one of his motives

The icon is transparent as a representation of the special reality it depicts; an idol replaces and obscures that reality ... but the difference between icon and idol is purely subjective.

The use of the passive voice to disguise one's role in the making of a decision is imprecise and obfuscatory. You're a better adman than that. Active verbs! Why not say 'I refuse to pay you fairly'?

The essence of good government is trust.

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

If there's something you're not going to be able to do, you should just be honest and admit it.

If we know the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of,

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

GENEROSITY + VULNERABILITY + ACCOUNTABILITY + CANDOR = TRUST