David Nabarro Quotes

Truth fears nothing but concealment. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

There are no secrets.

I cannot deceive my people.

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

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

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

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

We don't need secrecy.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

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

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

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.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

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

You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.

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

To Any Officer or Employee of the Government: Please tell Mr. Lincoln Steffens anything whatever about the government that you know (not incompatible with the public interest) and provided only that you tell him the truth—no matter what it might be—I will see to it that you are not hurt. T. Roosevelt.