Quotes About Transparency

Taxpayers need to know if they are getting value for their tax dollar.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

Taxpayers should be able to see where their money is being spent and what impact it is having.

What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I'm going to let it be known.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Your authority in part comes from your authenticity, the authenticity of your struggles and your flawed humanity.

After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them, so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.

After two years I said to my boyfriend, "Either tell me your name or it's over."

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

I realised something. Since leaving for Nymanteles, since coming clean with my friends, being honest with them, I'd been nobody but me. No pretence. No lies. I had been me. I had found me.

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.

Presiding over the "genuine blanket

The idea of a "free market" separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

In Scrum, we make everything visible. We air our dirty laundry. We are honest about the state of our code because code is never perfect. We become more fully human, more worthy of the divine, and closer to that greatness in the details.

You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected.