E. W. Howe Quotes

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

I've never had anything to hide.

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

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

We don't need secrecy.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

What we say privately we say publicly.

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

So much of what I do is so strictly confidential that it's nice to be able to discuss or vent or laugh about something and not read about it in the newspaper the next day.

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I don't believe it helps when internal affairs are made public.

Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.