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“We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.”

Source: One Taste

“When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power.”

People Way Needs Light Purpose Force Dark Abuse Presses Checks Journalism Transparency Free Press

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.”

Done Alive Color Individuality Abstraction Effectiveness Transparency Incline Generalities Specificity Transfiguration

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.”

“I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.”

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Author:Michael Burry

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

Government Transparency Government Education

Author:Bill Gates

“I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."”

Trying Yeah Transparency Financing

Author:Lake Bell

“For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.”

Choices Principles Core Privacy Online Transparency

Author:Marissa Mayer

“Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.”

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Author:Ken Auletta

“I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.”

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Author:Joseph Fiennes

“I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.”

Want Feels Trying Building Contemporary Architect Transparency

Author:Luis Gonzalez

“[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).”

Desire Belief Fit Late Photography Discovery Surface Preserves Cinema Capture Rays Technological Fleeting Fascination Transparency Modernity

Author:Walead Beshty

“I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."”

People Knows Way Want Looks Children Different Like You Shining Different Ways Transparency

Author:Avery Sunshine

“Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.”

Inspirational Philosophy Whole Inspiring Transparency

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.”

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Author:Peter Menzel

“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.”

People Thinking Shows Song Enjoy Knowing Stage Right Now Elements Happenings Hearing Hopefully Vulnerability Accomplished Connecting Transparency

Author:Jason Mraz

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.”

“Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.”

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Author:Bruce Schneier

“What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.”

Soul Might Able Form Style Seeking Your Soul Transparency Register Flux

Author:Richard Flanagan

“First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.”

Needs Firsts Language Term Class Openness Valleys Transparency Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Astra Taylor

“I am saying that I am trying to minimize the donations to these groups by talking to diplomats. The transparency bill also has the purpose of enabling the Israeli public and members of Knesset to know whose interests certain organizations represent.”

Knows Trying Purpose Certain Interest Talking Groups Members Organization Bills Israeli Transparency Enabling Diplomats Donation

Author:Ayelet Shaked

“That transparency is important. Look at what's inside products and seek out those that contain natural, plant-based ingredients - from toothpaste to cosmetics.”

Looks Important Natural Products Plant Ingredients Transparency Cosmetics Toothpaste

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.”

People Thinking Knows World Heart Helping Christ Community Church Trouble Honesty This World Overcoming Believer Locals Pursue Holiness Biblical Helping People Transparency Local Church

Author:Alan Chambers

“In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.”

Problem Reality Might Social Emotion Wife Example Possibility Emotional Ordinary Excellent Perceive Cheating Representation Transparency Ordinary Life Phenomenology Misrepresentation

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.”

“It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…”

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Author:Barack Obama

“What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.”

Has Beens Cases Changed Corruption Theology Alternatives Liberation Dictatorship Defence Transparency Portraying Islamists

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).”

Way Believe Company Practice Player Media Impact Embrace Including Journalism Fairness Transparency Accuracy Hybrid Immediacy New Media Best Practices Investigative Journalism

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.”

People Ideas Real Shows Problem Deals Behinds Training Happenings Weakness Critical Surface Radical Transparency Real Problems Meritocracy

Author:Ray Dalio

“Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.”

Way Reason Behinds Doors Goodness Radical Bad Things Transparency Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Ray Dalio

“A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.”

Ideas Fuel Hiding Trusted Transparency Hiding Something

Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza

“The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.”

Long Made Fighting Term Quality Generations Effects Source Battle Long Term Transparency Our Generation

Author:Daphne Oz

“In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?”

Persons Our Lives Honest Higher Connections Vulnerable Intimacy Transparency Love Relationship

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.”

People World Needs Important Country Able Poor Rights Revolution Pockets Payment Transparency Sweeping Minerals Poor Countries

Author:Michael Elliott

“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.”

“I want to be fair here. If we're going to be talking about transparency and disclosure, Donald Trump has not released a single piece of serious information about his health.”

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Author:Robby Mook

“The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.”

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Author:Jane Mayer

“At least with [Hillary] Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency. There was some sense of what's going on here, and a lot to be very alarmed about, whether it's the - you know, the Prince Bandar and, you know, the princes of Saudi Arabia, or Bahrain, or the Russians that she enabled to acquire 20 percent of our uranium supply. I mean, really outrageous stuff. The arms deals, et., a lot of grave concern.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?”

People Thinking Knows Should Has Beens Government Remember Individual Half Records Fire Information Crosses Should Have Good Things Clinton Caught Email Transparency Should Have Been

Author:Jill Stein

“I'll tell you what, [Hillary Clinton] is not making America safer by her actions and because as it relates to Benghazi, as it relates the e-mail scandal, as to the number of lies and obfuscation that she has engaged in throughout the course of this investigation and lack of transparency. And specifically, she's making America weaker by telegraphing and telling our enemies that we won't even put troops or boots over there. You don't know what's going to happen down the road”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“We have full disclosure in transparency of our audited, our financial audits. It's on our Web site. It is, I think 16 or 20- something pages, which most public companies or private companies and most ministries don't disclose. So we have always operated with financial integrity and full transparency.”

Thinking Company Integrity Pages Financial Ministry Site Transparency Disclosure

Author:Paula White

“We all rely on the market's transparency and integrity.”

Integrity Rely Transparency

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.”

“Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.”

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Author:Glenn Greenwald

“Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.”

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Author:Cathy O'Neil

“Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, "living wills" (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.”

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Author:Jamie Dimon

“People want transparency in government.”

People Want Government Transparency

Author:Elijah Cummings

“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.”

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Author:Richard Meier

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