Quotes about Transparency

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.

Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

We should not, therefore, be afraid of testing others--or of being tested ourselves. It is only by testing, or being tested, that we understand whether the substance or the person is as it appears to be or is merely masquerading.

I get audited almost every year.And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's almost become a way of life. I get audited by the IRS. But other people don't.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.