Quotes About Transparency

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

I provided all my emails that could possibly be work related [to FBI].

I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

One thing I want to make clear: You never want to hide from your debts. It doesn't work.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Engagement and integrity are the two most fundamental aspects of building trust; lead from the front by evolving your company strategy, then live your values every day.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

My strategy is being as honest as possible.

Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart.

The reason I moved to Singapore is because everything is so organised and streamlined. There's no 'who you know,' there's no anything 'under the table.'

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.