You in this chamber and those who sent me here expect nothing short of total candor in dealing with the problems and opportunities of our state.

It would be naïve to pick up the memoir of a recently retired politician expecting total candor.

"There was a dynamic that prevented total candor," one employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, recently said.

He wanted them to talk with total candor.

Disavowal Unlikely Mr. Bush is not prepared, at least not yet, to speak with total candor about his strategy.

But total candor can be the rape of hope.

She used that total candor which was not truly honesty so much as indifference to the sensibilities of those who heard her.

But I will say to you in total candor that I have no desire to do that.

What counts, he said, is the freedom to express his views with total candor.

"I don't know," Baker said with total candor.