Abu Bakr Quotes

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

There are no secrets.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

We don't need secrecy.

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.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

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

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Be candid with everyone.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

The only way we can do oversight is if people tell the truth.