Quotes About Transparency

I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

I want to show people who I am, introduce them to my family, where I've come from, how I'm helping people with my charity work. I know it sounds boring, but with that comes with a lot and a lot of bumps in the road.

I've never offered coupons or deals. I'm not fancy enough to do soup or salads, hot breakfasts, or smoothies.

I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.

I don't like when people come out and say 'sources say' and this and that. Listen, if you can't put your name behind it, then don't say it. I don't believe in that.

A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads. The companies create these entities with fake names - like 'Citizens for Nice Puppies' - which means that the sources of the money are unaccountable.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

I don't like to not call a spade a spade.