Quotes About Transparency

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide tactics they would never openly admit to using.

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

I want to have a great open relationship with our press.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.