Quotes about Transparency

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Truth by definition excludes.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.