Ann Romney Quotes

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

I've got nothing to hide.

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

Although governments will also benefit from improved access to information, increased transparency will allow people at home and abroad to better observe and critique what governments do and to hold leaders accountable for their decisions. As a result, governments will find it harder to adopt strategies that require secrecy or violate international norms.

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

I think that as a public figure, I put myself out there so people can ask me anything they want to ask me.

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

I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.