Michael Tubbs Quotes

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Accountability begins with transparency.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Public disclosure is one of the great disinfectants ever invented.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

Transparency increases credibility and accountability.

One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

Neither ethical lapses nor public corruption are commonplace, let alone tolerated..

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

Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.

Transparency matters.

The TMPG is the place where market participants recognize and address their responsibilities to each other.

Every manager feels a responsibility to his board of directors and the public and the players.

Transparency is so important in business.