Quotes About Transparency

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.