The truth is I've never even met Tom.

Indeed, outspokenness was a hallmark of Wolfensohn s tenure.

Meanwhile, the blogger Someone has decided that honesty is the best policy Pseudonyms give writers the scope to write about everything.

Though very outspoken, purists do not comprise the majority on Tatoeba.

Such forthrightness is not easy for any country.

Strict Protestants make a virtue out of brutal frankness, because they believe they have a direct pipeline to God.

To put it bluntly, Russia is no longer in the same category as China.

Should McNamara have been more forthcoming in his regrets? He should.

She ended her post with a confession that she no longer loves Egypt اعترفت اننى رفعت يدى...وتوقفت عن الايمان بمصر And thereby, in a rare moment of frankness and clarity I admitted to myself the worst confession ever..

But this is the first time in 80 years that a constitution has been so openly and publicly debated.

Not trusting that officials will be candid about alarming information, we rely more on rumors.

Dominique Strauss Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was uncharacteristically blunt for an international official.

It is as simple as that. In today's Netherlands, assertiveness is seen as a good thing, modesty as a form of self chastisement.

And that this, of course, one of the themes for us is that we think that candor and brutal honesty is critical to us collectively being great parents.

In this connection, the Seminars continue to be a useful forum to review progress achieved, particularly because of the open and frank nature of the discussions that take place.

She is not nice, her rhetoric tends to be flat and uninspiring, and her English is not great. Nor, for that matter, is her Hebrew.

Public spending cuts come more naturally to Conservatives, and they have despite their lack of candor attempted to make a virtue out of this necessity.

From what I understand and I am speaking in all frankness I heard from the representative of the United States that the Chair's proposal was not circulated in Washington, D.C., so it was not even considered in Washington, D.C.

And, as I have witnessed several times, if the IMF staff ever do become too candid in their criticism of powerful members, the target governments use their leverage to water down the public communiqués issued by the Board.

And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.

But, frankly, it will be easier to do this if the American public and the US Congress see that China is serious about reform and expanding access to its markets.

The IMF should also be more proactive and speak with greater candor in systemically important countries, where shortcomings in financial supervision and crisis management have appeared.

So when we talk about transparency, when we talk about openness, I really do believe that what we should keep in mind is that what went right is what went wrong.

But when we set new goals in 2015, we will need to be much more honest about focusing on areas where we can achieve the most good.

The blood of WWII s victims calls for justice and fairness, but most of all it demands honesty about who and what caused their tragic fate. If those who gather in Moscow on May 9 do anything to validate Soviet war crimes, they will show themselves insensitive to the silent cries of WWII s tens of millions of dead innocents.

China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

So the point of all this for us today is not just hopefully honesty for the sake of honesty, but a hope that by being more honest and candid about these experiences, that we can all collectively bend that happiness baseline up a little bit.

Overall, the Millennium Development Goals improved the planet. But when we set new goals in 2015, we will need to be much more honest about focusing on areas where we can achieve the most good.

Since all political parties in Puerto Rico concurred that its current status was colonial, elementary political decency demanded that no referendum, constituent assembly or other devious political scheme aimed at preserving that status should be described as a remedy to the colonial situation.