Quotes About Disclosure

Creating a climate in which disclosure is possible and acceptable is the organization's responsibility.

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

The thing about secrets, though, is that they get out. And trust me, if you've got a secret, eventually, it's going to get out.

Lerner points out that we do not usually know the emotional costs of keeping a secret until the truth is disclosed.

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy

The truth cannot be hidden.

I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures.

When I opened my first brew-pub, I did not include a checkbox on hiring applications that required applicants to disclose criminal convictions. And we were better for it.

Shockingly, the Government Accountability Institute has reported that the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns received questionable contributions of more than $500 million as a result of poor disclosure requirements.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Our reforms to criminal record disclosure will benefit ex-offenders, but there will a broader, more significant payoff for everyone in society.

CONFIDENTIALITY 1. Find out if, and under what circumstances, you are required by law not to maintain confidentiality.

revelations that were unfolding.

It isn't gossip," Hyacinth retorted. "It's the honest dissemination of information.

Shall you tell him or shall I?" Billie said. George took a breath. "Well, now that is quite a story . . .

I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.

I don't believe it helps when internal affairs are made public.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The kind of lying that is most deadly is withholding, or keeping back information from someone we think would be affected by it.