Carrie Lam Quotes

I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment.

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Make sure that everyone who should know what you are doing knows what you are doing.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.

I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

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

We could have done things in a more transparent manner and explained better.

I'm pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it's about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.

So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?