Top 171 Transparent Quotes

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I’m not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I’m a woman. I’m black. I am passionate. I am transparent.

My father‘s like – it’s as if he was transparent. He’s a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that’s reflected in their work.

I live my life very clean and transparent – so I have nothing to hide.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

I don’t know if I’d do well in a structured, corporate environment. I’m very open. I share everything. I don’t care. I don’t have anything to hide. I’m very transparent that way.

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.

‘Transparent’ was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It’s the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

Reasonable regulations are essential to protect consumers from harmful practices and ensure that consumer financial markets operate in a fair, transparent, competitive manner.

When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of the consequences was the rewarding of skaters who attempt more challenging technical elements in the pursuit of ever more points.

With my fan base, I’m just vulnerable. I’m very transparent and vulnerable.

It’s a world where anyone you’re selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

Conflicts of interest’ arise when you’re not – when you’re sneaky about it, when you’re shady about it, when you’re not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, ‘Here’s what’s going on. Here’s the process; here are the people that are playing a role‘ – that’s being transparent.

If you look at the Qur’an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

I’m pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

America has the greatest military in the world, and it’s up to our leaders to set the bar for what a 21st century military culture of innovation with transparent, collaborative leadership looks like.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

I recall the magic being on set for season one of ‘Transparent.’ The trans inclusivity of our set was unparalleled at the time.

I’ve tried my best to be transparent with everything I do. What you see is what you get.

On ‘Transparent,’ I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends – truth be told, we’re all more like family.

My ascension as interim president is based on Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution, according to which, if at the outset of a new term there is no elected head of state, power is vested in the president of the National Assembly until free and transparent elections take place.

When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don’t understand the point.

When prices are transparent and competition is encouraged, consumers win. We believe that can prove true in health care as it has in every other area of the American economy.

I think New Jersey‘s process is actually a very good one – the good government. The governor presents the budget, you’ve got one-on-one meetings, you’ve got leadership meetings, you’ve got hearings, more importantly, that are transparent and open.

As the Director of the FBI, I am committed to ensuring that the Bureau is being transparent and responsive to legitimate congressional requests.

My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts – it’s all very spontaneous!

My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it’s ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It’s 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything’s hidden, so you don’t see the microwave or the fridge.

I don’t like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

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.

What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept the rule of law, reduce corruption, and become open, accountable, and transparent.

We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.

My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.

I do think there’s a spiritual element in the world, yes. Have I experienced a ghost firsthand, per se? No. I guess I’ve experienced feelings or some kind of a presence. But I certainly haven‘t seen any kind of transparent entity running around.

The truth matters, and despite my objection to the creation of the Select Panel, as its Ranking Member, I will do all I can to ensure that as long at it continues, it will be as fair, transparent and objective as possible.

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.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

I’m always so overly transparent that sometimes I’m like, damn, am I saying too much? Should I say this? Should I not say this?

I’m in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don’t shave, they’re taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they’re talking to you.

L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It’s impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people’s confidence in politicians… is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

It’s too bad American electoral races aren’t as transparent as NASCAR races.

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

I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it’s important to be transparent.

One thing that has saved my bacon many times is talking to the neighbor about the property. Neighbors are so transparent and honest, they will give you the entire down-low on the property.

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

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn’t have before.

I am pretty transparent how I do things.

I’m much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated up front. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer.

Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.

The way we structure our backend, we key the payments to the box office – so that cuts the negotiating way down, and it’s very transparent. One of the things I’m most proud of is that we’re really transparent with our process.

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.

It is important to be transparent about ingredients and use products with clean ingredients.

The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we wake up with our hair in perfect shellacked bobs.

When our Founders created this great experiment in self-governance, the House of Representatives became, by design, the body closest to the people. We are the most accountable, and we must be the most transparent.

When it comes to running a business and interacting with people, you need to be very transparent.

The problem is if Russia is organising exercises – and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about – it creates suspicions as to their objectives.

I’ve made it a point to be transparent on my social media and in everything that I present. I never want anyone to think that I’m too fluffy or too perfect.

There’s this intense media spotlight; there’s a need to be transparent, and, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m also trying to fight a war at the same time.’ It’s a challenge, but it goes with the job.

I’ve learned I can’t really affect or control what journalists write, so I just try my best to be transparent and answer the questions that are asked of me.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public’s trust.

From a young age, I was always very transparent, and that’s why the kids‘ mums didn’t like me. I would tell you if I didn’t like your beans on toast.

I am beyond excited to share ‘Transparent’ with the world through Amazon. They’ve been so supportive through this incredible process.

When I was elected to Congress, I made a commitment to my constituents that my office would set the standard to be open and transparent.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can’t win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.

The cost of airline tickets will never be transparent as long as the Department of Transportation requires airlines to hide taxes, surcharges, and fees from consumers.

WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called ‘battery‘ problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging solution that is transparent to the user. The cell phone with a dead battery can become a relic of the past. The days of wired, mat-based and proximity charging are over.

I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

To me, ‘Transparent’ is one of the best family dramas since ‘The Sopranos.’

Between ‘Orange‘ with Laverne, the show ‘Transparent,’ and Caitlyn Jenner, obviously we’re in the middle of something enormous – a transgender movement. I’m just proud to be alive during this massive shift in the world.

With ‘Transparent’. When Amazon put ‘Transparent’ up, along with ‘Bosch’ and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn’t comment on them, but I was like, ‘Okay, this is kind of cool.’

Partnerships remain critical to nuTonomy’s success, and our aim is to work with groups with whom we share strategic aims and core values. These are partners that are transparent, innovative, and are focused on putting autonomous fleets on the road.

Transparent’ does a good job of pushing the envelope in a real way, not in a sensational or salacious way.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it’s not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Transparent’ was my coming-out party.

We believe that Ripple will change the way the world thinks about and uses currency through universal access to a trusted, transparent, and easy-to-understand multi-currency financial tool.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

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.

In daily life, I’m not a heavy user anyway, but I’m extra careful online because of the kids who look up to me. That’s the fun part of being an actor – that kids like you – because they are very pure and transparent in their likes and dislikes. There’s no filter like the ones on Instagram.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I like people to be honest and transparent. It bothers me when people feel the need to embellish stories to make themselves look better.

There’s a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is – the fresher, the more transparent that system is – the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it’s very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.

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

Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find – at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers – unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.

In ‘The Transparent Society,’ I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that’s probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries.

I’m not a hypocrite and I’m a transparent person.

The thing that I’ve decided is, I don’t want to be invisible, but I’d like to be transparent. I want people to see what I’m thinking and see through me.

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

You can’t expect leaders and people to be intentional, take the steps that are needed, and be a part of making progress if you’re not willing to be transparent about where we are and where we want to go.

It’s really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of making government more transparent, then that’s great.

That hasn’t been easy, because in order to run a clean and transparent race, I announced in January I was not going to accept any corporate PAC money.

The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall – that of our consciousness – between the world and ourselves.

I took all my TV experience and what I learned about – by writing and directing and bringing a movie to Sundance – about the realities of the independent film market: ‘Transparent’ is the marriage of those two situations.

When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You’re in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

Despite the Obama administration’s proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing – or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology.

People are looking for software development that actually does something useful… People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.

Every other show that I’m on, they’re always rushed, and you feel this pressure to hurry up and get out of the scene, but I don’t feel that way on ‘Transparent.’ They like to linger in these scenes.

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.

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

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

We are fighting for free, fair and transparent elections, which means that every citizen of Belarus will be able to participate in those elections.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be 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.

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

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

Enterprise customers have been working together with us for a long time, they trust us, and we just keep everything open and transparent.

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.

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.

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

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

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.

We’ve always tried to run a transparent and honest government.

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn’t confuse the personal with the corporate.

I have good skin, but it’s dry – drier than you would think, considering I have Latin skin. It’s fairly transparent, too, so I’m constantly trying to give it nourishment and moisture, but nothing really holds.

In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there’s a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

I think any great culture is born out of transparent, authentic communication. You almost can’t overcommunicate. You can try, and you might think, ‘Oh, do I really have to say this again?’ And the answer is yes.

I feel like sometimes, when I talk about ‘Transparent,’ I’m in a cult. And in some ways, I guess I sort of am, although it’s a cult that pays me, and I don’t pay it, so maybe that’s a really good cult.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

Often people ask me about getting involved in service and philanthropy, and my first advice is: Make sure it’s real and it’s transparent.

The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text – to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they’re helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.

I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.

I’m very transparent. What you see is what you get. ‘I date this person, this happened to me’ and I have to be honest about it… because of that I developed a backbone.

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

I just always want to be as transparent as possible.

To me, the mind and body are one. I’m very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I’m in.

I’ve not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

I do consider myself an actress now. I think ‘Dig‘ and ‘Transparent’ have given me the confidence.

Poems – crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we’ll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It’s on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature – the holy book. There’s nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

We’re going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now, the goals of technology are not aligned with our goals as humans. We need technology that empowers us to make the life choices we want to make.

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what’s on the inside edge of the transparent one.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that’s how I’ve lived my life, and that’s where I am now. I am completely transparent. There’s nothing that you can’t ask me and nothing I won‘t talk about.

I wanna be as transparent as possible. I’m not a serious guy.

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form – it’s how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

For me it was just about staying the course, staying true to who I believe that I am, being open, being honest, being transparent with the players, being firm with the players but at the same time listening to the players.

I did a couple auditions, failed miserably, was about to give up, and booked ‘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.

Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities‘ transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.

I think it’s very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak… to travel… to experience the world. And memorialize it.

Proposing direct discounts at the pharmacy counter is just part of the Trump agenda for fairer, more transparent prices in health care.

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.

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

One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, ‘I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I’ll be able to see the cells within the living animal.’

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

I think the things that can define me is that I’m going to be honest, I’m going to be transparent, I’m going to be as open as I can.

One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of unorganized players.