Quotes About Transparency

La transparencia es para quienes tienen obligaciones públicas y ejercen el poder público. La privacidad es para todos los demás.

The lesson for me was clear: national security officials do not like the light. They act abusively and thuggishly only when they believe they are safe, in the dark. Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. *

Not only was all this collaboration conducted with no transparency, but it contradicted public statements made by Skype. ACLU technology expert Chris Soghoian said the revelations would surprise many Skype customers. "In the past, Skype made affirmative promises to users about their inability to perform wiretaps," he said. "It's hard to square Microsoft's secret collaboration with the NSA with its high-profile efforts to compete on privacy with Google.

I found the sheer vastness of the spying system genuinely shocking, all the more so because it had clearly been implemented with virtually no accountability, no transparency, and no limits. The

Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.

He had come to believe that the paper's concealment of that information may very well have changed the outcome of the 2004 election. "Hiding that story changed history," he said.

the FAA, has a list of zones or states which are "unapproved." Airlines from those areas or states are forbidden from entering US airspace but, incredibly, the FAA will not specify the airlines, which is not much use to you, the fare-paying passenger, as you plan your travel abroad. The European agency, however, regularly updates the list and tells you outright the names of the companies they say are not up to standard.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest

Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts

I hope the day will come when everyone can have books that tell the truth.

Speaking the truth is better than speaking one's mind.

The problem isn't that the world isn't fair enough. It is, we aren't truthful enough.

There is always an easier honest path.

Truth makes privilege

Unless we bring falsehood to rest, we will never rest.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Truth and transparency are always appreciated by honest people. That, in the end, is the only thing that matters.

Until the tide goes out you don't know who's swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.

When one asks for cream one should receive either cream or the information that the establishment in question favors instead a combination of vegetable oil and cancer-causing initials.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple...

Fire and pride cannot be hid.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.