Top 195 Transparency Quotes

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
Valerie Jarrett
One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.
Gerry Adams
Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish.
Francois Nars
If I were to put labels on demonetization, it would be transparency and traceability.
Anand Mahindra
One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation.
Gerry Adams
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don’t personally believe that.
Bill Keller
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.
Noreena Hertz
For Trump, the reasons to release his tax returns have always been compelling. Doing so would show the American people he doesn’t just talk about accountability and transparency but also walks the walk.
Reid Hoffman
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The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.
John Kennedy
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
John Kennedy
Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the Capitol.
Kevin de Leon
Listen, re-gifting is fine as long as there is transparency. You just have to be like, ‘This is something I got that I couldn’t use, and I thought you might like it.’
Eric Stonestreet
We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.
Malcolm Jenkins
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
Ma Jun
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
Alex Gibney
The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
Eden Robinson
The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full transparency in inquests. Governments also have a moral obligation to ensure proper care for the injured and their families.
Dominic Raab
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
Mitt Romney
Good law includes a commitment to transparency and an insistence that no person or entity with a conflict of interest should have influence on public policy decisions.
Paul Romer
Transparency is so important in business.
Alan Mulally
I’ve always been in favor of drastic transparency, radical transparency.
Jason Schreier
Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
Evan Osnos
The country’s future is what you will make it. Make your local representatives in parliament and assembly more answerable. Ask for more transparency in use of public funds.
Smriti Irani
The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public’s right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government.
Chelsea Manning
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
Denise Morrison
I believe in transparency.
Hillary Clinton
I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.
Tan Cheng Bock
The swipe fee reform law that Congress enacted in 2010 was a huge step forward in bringing transparency, competition, and choice to a debit card system that had been rigged by Visa, MasterCard, and the banks.
Dick Durbin
Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
Simon Mainwaring
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: ‘A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.’ Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
Michelle Malkin
Openness, transparency – these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt… and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Michael Moore
I don’t claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
Michael Arrington
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
John Gerzema
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
Diane Garnick
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny – they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
Enhanced transparency has helped to reinforce the stability of India’s financial system.
Urjit Patel
We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
Ted Deutch
By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent… But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it.
Stanley A. McChrystal
It’s near impossible to always be right when you’re innovating. It’s easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don’t like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.
Jeff Jordan
We talk about this concept of openness and transparency

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.
Mark Zuckerberg
I’m a very connected and passionate founder. And I do model transparency and openness and loyalty in my actions.
Julia Hartz
I don’t claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.
Michael Arrington
I have three very simple principles. I don’t like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency, that people have to really not just know but understand what they’re buying and selling. And that you have to have enough capital to back up your promises.
Eric Schneiderman
Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.
Dinesh Paliwal
I don’t really speak for anybody else’s music, and I don’t think I should, but I think the reason why people enjoy my music is because there’s a level of honesty and transparency that people can connect and relate to.
Andy Mineo
Clients don’t expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
Patrick Lencioni
We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn’t solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.
Zephyr Teachout
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
David Brin
Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.
Sarah Lancashire
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
Roshni Nadar
Black, white and brown people have to work together to find new answers. The only way we can stop the systemic problems that people of color have faced all our lives is through honesty and transparency.
Dwane Casey
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That’s a layer of transparency that’s sorely needed in America.
Paul Ryan
I don’t like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they’re buying and selling.
Eric Schneiderman
From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
Urjit Patel
The greatest hypocrisy on the planet right now is for those who defend capitalism to not be in favor of radical transparency, for all of us to know who owns everything. And that is my militant, radical, moderate, pro-capitalist, pro-Enlightenment, ferocious stand.
David Brin
Entrepreneurship transparency, I think, is important because there are so many problems that you just have to be real about them. There are so many ways for a startup to die, so the transparency attitude is key.
David Cohen
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
Elizabeth Esty