Top 195 Transparency Quotes

The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.
Kimbal Musk
Although designers continue to dream of ‘transparency’ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‘personality.’
Brian Eno
A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.
Peter Fenn
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
Jonathan Turley
I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
John Thune
You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
Jeff Bezos
I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
Megan Smith
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
Howard Schultz
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
Let’s embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
Maria Cantwell
It’s no secret that COVID-19 has impacted immigration detention centers at an alarming rate. We must establish accountability and transparency in reporting data to ensure detention centers are taking the necessary precautions to protect detained individuals.
Alex Padilla
Transparency is the hallmark of Prime Minister Modi’s government.
Piyush Goyal
In the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the FCC streng

In the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the FCC strengthened its transparency rule so that Internet service providers must make public more information about their network management practices. They are required to make this information available either on their own website or on the FCC’s website.
Ajit Pai
One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.
Chuka Umunna
If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.
Rebecca MacKinnon
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
Whatever happens to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining ground and more respect. Ethereum, for instance, has far more transparency.
Richard Quest
This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It’s no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It’s the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.
Tim O’Reilly
Fifa urgently needs a fresh start and transparency is key. Moving its headquarters is the only way the association will attract new people, many of whom are likely to have long lost faith with Fifa’s ability to govern.
Sol Campbell
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn’t turn over, because harming people isn’t my goal. Transparency is.
Edward Snowden
I am not against privatisation of the media channels but I stand for a strong regulation and transparency.
Arvind Kejriwal
I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation’s faith in its elected leaders.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Slovakia’s joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
John Mica
The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.
Rudy Giuliani
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
Charles Best
Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we’re just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
Naomi Klein
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
Pete Hegseth
The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.
Beppe Grillo
Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It’s about education and reaching out.
Gabrielle Carteris
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
Philip Zimbardo
I’ve come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
Jeff Weiner
I think China knows that in the early stages of Covid, it didn’t do what it needed to do, which was to, in real time, give access to international experts, in real time to share information, in real time to provide real transparency.
Antony Blinken
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today’s world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one’s watching, whether it’s an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
Peter Diamandis
Progressive changed the industry when we introduced our Comparison Rater Experience and showed you auto rates of other companies next to our own – even if our rates weren’t the lowest. That level of transparency was unprecedented.
Tricia Griffith
Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
Harsha Bhogle
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi
Transparency concentrates minds.
Nicky Morgan
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.
Andrew Mitchell
The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.
Heather Brooke
What happens to a private company that comes out with a quarterly report and an annual report? It gives transparency. It talks of basic issues of governance and transactions with related parties.
Shiv Nadar
Theresa May and her advisers should understand that to rebuild faith in the competence and integrity of our government, transparency is vital. It shines light on the good as well as the bad. And it leads to better-informed decisions, therefore better outcomes.
Gina Miller
We capitalists? We want transparency.
Trish Regan
Government transparency and efficiency start with a trustworthy team.
Kay Ivey
In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the imp

In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.
David Petraeus
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
Transparency is one of our core principles, We treat the food with integrity. We don’t commodify it beyond recognition.
Daniel Lubetzky
I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.
Grace Poe
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 think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper
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
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology.
Blythe Masters
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It’s institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
Nicolas Berggruen
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi
Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do – it’s what parliament expects, and it’s what the public deserves.
Andrea Leadsom