Quotes About Transparency

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

Yes, and you should question your government.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.