Quotes About Transparency

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

Straight-news pieces are supposed to be just that: straight news. They are not supposed to be biased, and a longtime practice for ensuring this is to ask all subjects of a story for their comment.

In India, all public servants employed by the central or a state government or any other public authority under their control are required under the relevant civil service rules to submit returns of movable and immovable assets owned by them and their immediate family.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

There is most likely to be corruption even in the list of corrupt people or places prepared by any agency.

No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself - that is, if he reveals himself at all.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

When you tell the truth, they don't believe you. And it was easier to tell the truth.

A good teacher is one who gives honest answers.

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.