Quotes About Transparency

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

In my own personal career, I have felt almost the most difficult thing to deal with is someone who doesn't tell you what they are thinking.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they're always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.

But deep prayer, prolonged prayer, is a terrible mirror—kneel there long enough and everything shows. There's no way out of eventually seeing your phoniness and dishonesty.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

make it public. It's not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it's disagreeing where you can build

To this day, while I admire poetic opacity in certain authors and filmmakers, I cannot tolerate it in my own work. You may or may not like something I've written, but I'll do my damnedest to ensure that you know what I wanted to say.)

Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that "the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.

The media could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

The Kealty administration had promised more "openness" and "transparency" in the clandestine CIA. Jack Junior's father had written an op-ed in The Washington Post that suggested, in a manner that was still respectful to the office of the presidency, that Ed Kealty might want to look up the word clandestine in the dictionary.

government that had no secrets could not function.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

social conversation was impossible for her because she could not lie.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

lay it all down, sword and shield.

truth is trouble.

Be real. Tell the truth. God can handle it.

Anything you got to do with your own kind in secret, something's wrong with it. You feel bad about it inside.

Depicting yourself as a whole person on the page doesn't only mean recognizing your role in a bad situation. It means being emotionally authentic. It means showing all of yourself: the shameful parts, the embarrassing parts, the parts that you might regret or that you wish weren't true.

Being alone feels more honest.