Quotes About Transparency

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.

Government cannot tax what Parliament does not approve, but Parliament cannot approve what it does not know.

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Today's so-called cloud isn't really a cloud at all. It's a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they're fake because they all have logos on them. The real cloud wouldn't have a logo. Once

Not only does God not reject or punish us for being honest and transparent about our whole selves, but he actually accepts and loves us where we are. We are anchored in God's love as he gives us permission to express ourselves—the bad along with the good—and take care of ourselves in an appropriate way.

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by their purchases, require animals to be killed do not deserve to be shielded from this or any other aspect of the production of the meat they buy.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.