Quotes About Transparency

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that's the case with Sarah Palin's conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she's sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope - I really hope.

I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.

We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know.

I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

It is difficult to believe that parties are unaware of the crimes that their M.P.'s are committing. But there is no effort to take action against them, till they are caught and publicly exposed.

For any unbiased and realistic enquiry against judges, one needs a full time body, independent of the government as well as of the judiciary, with an investigative machinery under its control, through which it can get complaints investigated.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it