Mitt Romney Quotes

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.

What is important is that you're honest with the American people.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

With me, everything's right on the table.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

We want to live in a country where the leaders have enough respect for us to tell us the truth

I cannot deceive my people.

When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.

It matters to people that the president tell them the truth.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

I'm a full disclosure kind of person.

A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

We don't need secrecy.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.