Quotes About Transparency

This whole business of telling the truth just never seems to work without some kind of awkward unpleasantness.

My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I

We need more government, but also a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other. The

we may well look back at the 2016 election as the moment when the corruption and sheer incompetence of Washington became so large and transparent that an era of reform finally got underway. Even if Washington goes badly in the wrong direction in 2017 and beyond, the American people may begin to mobilize for true and deep political reforms.

The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

73% of companies have decided that lying to their employees about their potential to advance is the right choice.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

was like a crystal bowl filled with warm kettle corn. But when you lifted it up and checked the bottom, you could see a layer of burnt, unpopped kernels. The kind that makes you flinch from the unexpected bitter taste. The kind that may cause you to chip a tooth.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface, even if you don't want it to.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

space, nobody could hear you scream; on the Internet, nobody could tell if you were lying.

Everyone deserves justice, I thought. Even people who lie. And everyone lies. Especially on social media, where there were lies of commission and lies of omission on everyone's page, woven into everyone's public presence.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie.

if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush.

Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.

the problem wasn't the person who made the mistake; it was the person who acknowledged the truth.

Why can't we talk about what we think instead of just all the stupid shit we've done?

So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.