Quotes About Transparency

I truly believe the importance of shining the light on the dark corners of our world.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

All families have lies and secrets, I don't mind sharing ours.

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

You don't have to be outlandish and saying crazy things and get out of yourself to get headlines or attention.

I do think people would be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this together in many ways in terms of these long hours and in terms of really sharing a desire to get information to the American people.

Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

I know being an open, honest, outspoken person gets me into trouble all the time, but I don't know how to be any other way.

Jonathan and I are outspoken. If there's something that's bothering us we just say it, deal with it, and move on.

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.

There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

Honesty is the best image.

When a person says it's not about the money, trust me, it's about the money.

I have five questions that I ask people who have power, and I recommend them to the House. If I see someone who is powerful, be it a traffic warden, Rupert Murdoch, the head of a trade union or a Member of Parliament, I ask myself these five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you?" That last question is crucial.

In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

How do you build trust? Through relationships, good decision making, consistency, and leadership.

We quickly notice how very few metaphors Jane Austen uses...we can see that Jane Austen's works do seem to aim at establishing ' a single world of discourse' and that she is not at all concerned to 'join a plurality of worlds'. Such a 'plurality' could lead to a potentially uncontrollable proliferation of ambiguities and possible meanings, whereas the drive of her writing seems to aim at a 'single' sense ... Jane Austen aims at a total transparency...

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.