I don’t see anything that’s come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

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.‘

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

I don’t have anything to hide.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

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.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.