Joao Lourenco Quotes

Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do - it's what parliament expects, and it's what the public deserves.

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's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

I believe in transparency.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The best system is the most accountable and transparent system

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

I'm somebody's who's in favor of transparency and openness.

Transparency matters.

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

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

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.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

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

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

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

Armed with purity of intentions and firmness of purpose, I may reasonably entertain the hope of being able to clear the administrative agency of all corruption and incompetency, and impart to it the maximum of honesty and efficiency. I now warn my officials of all ranks that I have fully made up my mind to put down corruption and intrigue wherever they may be found.