Quotes About Transparency

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

You wouldn't run for the United States Senate or for governor or for anything else without answering people's questions about what you believe. And I think the Supreme Court is no different.

I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I've spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.

If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Now I get why I'm incapable of flirting for I can't Lie!

The closer you get to know someone, the more you see their true colors.

If you can be anything, be real.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone's honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.