Quotes About Transparency

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

Be candid with everyone.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

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

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.