Quotes About Transparency

To drive down high drug costs, we need to shine a light on the negotiations between drug manufacturers, middleman negotiators and pharmacies.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

People love to make comments to me on Twitter or social media networks, and I say it's easy for you to make a comment because you're behind a screen where nobody can ever see you.

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

I certainly don't want to be part of a media that forces confessions from people who are not going to behave any differently the next time round.

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

Troy Deeney is a good guy, he's one of the nicest guys I've played with. He says it how it is. He's not a guy that beats around the bush. If he's not happy, he says what he feels.

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with you.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

I have no boundaries. I have nothing to hide.

While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.