Transparent Quotes

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.