Quotes About Transparency

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I never like to be the person trying to hard sell, saying, "This is why you should watch it." I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

My fans know me and love me the way I am. I dont want to lie to my fans.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.