Quotes about Transparency
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
- Harry S. Truman
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
- Ben Carson
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
- Isabel Allende
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
- Mother Teresa
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is always the best policy.
- George Washington
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
- St. Jerome
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
- Walter Mondale
The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.
- Marianne Williamson
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
- George Washington