Quotes About Transparency

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Costs should always be presented up front so that consumers can make informed choices and get a fairer deal.

'Wait a Minute,' which I consider my expose, came from a place of someone asking me to make a decision: basically presenting me with an ultimatum and me just feeling the need to just lay it out on the table.

I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

A free press needs to be a respected press.

The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.

I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.

The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

I'll never pretend to be I'm something I'm not.

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

A man should never pretend to be someone he's not to impress a woman. There is nothing sexier than an authentic man with integrity. Be who you are from the start. No games.