Quotes About Transparency

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

If you don't perform, you're not credible. And second, transparency. Even when you're not performing well, transparency can help you.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

You will lose because people can sniff out a poser from a mile away.

It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.

Sometimes I've been known to overshare and that gets you nowhere.

I felt small and exposed in his presence, as though my body was transparent and fragile as air, as though I might evaporate at any moment, or blow away.

The dog's agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. "I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So

Why can't we all just be honest with each other? It would be so easy to just not trust anyone ever, but you can't go through life with a pair of scissors in each hand, snip-snip-snipping away at everything people say or don't say, can you? You have to leave one hand free to catch the truth.

that's a pretty big lie by omission

Sometimes the truth feels good.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand. On the contrary, however, the usual way now is for the whites to work out their plans behind closed doors, have them approved by a few Negroes serving nominally on a board, and then employ a white or mixed staff to carry out their program.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Good writing is like a windowpane.