Quotes About Transparency

You think you know what the Department of Defense is spending? The Department of Defense doesn't even know what the Department of Defense is spending.

If you don't want her to go, you should say it. Those jerks who can't say a word no matter how much time passes ... I just don't get them. If they're doing whatever the hell they want ... then you should do what you want too. I hate those jerks who fool themselves into thinking that just because they clam up, nobody knows what's going on with them!!

for a democracy to flourish, it must have an incorruptible bureaucracy.

In here and out there are the same, but in here no one has to act fake anymore.

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

I'm so odd, and I'm so limited, and I'm so different from the ordinary human being—so you say. I have a strong suspicion that I'm the simplest of you all, and that it's my extreme transparency that baffles you. I dont think I ever feel anything but the most ordinary emotions.

Her hand cut a trail in the sea, as her mind made the green swirls and streaks into patterns and, numbed and shrouded, wandered in imagination in that underworld of waters where the pearls stuck in clusters to white sprays, where in the green light a change came over one's entire mind and one's body shone half transparent enveloped in a green cloak.

As for the beauty of women, it is like the light on the sea, never constant to a single wave. They all have it; they all lose it. Now she is dull and thick as bacon; now transparent as a hanging glass.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.

I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch.

There are three mutually reinforcing elements that define fair process: engagement, explanation, and clarity of expectation

Stakeholders need to know that their voices have been heard and that there will be no surprises.

By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process

The truth gets uglier the longer you try to hold it down.

You can shovel your bullshit however deep you want it, but in the end, it's still bullshit.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.

While understanding reality is crucial, equally important is communicating it to your people.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.