Quotes About Transparency

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.

I like to speak my mind.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

I'm a plain speaker.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

I like to speak the truth. I know people dont like listening to the truth but I like speaking it.

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

Having discussions over the years is normal, as I am someone who is very direct and always speaks the truth.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

Public servants should be focused on serving the public - not any special interest group, and good governance should be an expectation - not an exception.

I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.

We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.

I'd like to help the professional game to get it more exciting, more spectacular, more honest also.