This is an inevitably difficult question to answer; governors never have much of a record on the subject, and presidential candidates are seldom fully candid.
Harsher critics accused him of embarrassing Australia's international standing and jeopardising bilateral ties by publishing his candid thoughts about foreign leaders and private conversations.
Homes published a memoir in 2007, The Mistresses Daughter, and she is candid in the session about the childhood knowledge of her adoption, and then eventually meeting with her biological mother.
In a candid email to staff on Friday, Rajan said industrial action would give Lebedev "very little confidence" that journalists were committed to the future of the Independent.
In another sense, though, simply by being so candid about her determination to flex whatever muscle she has after May, she has made a significant departure.
"As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions," Obama said in a statement.
The Liberal MP Dan Tehan told us so, and Abbott himself referred to his "candid conversations" with colleagues on Australia Day.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.40am BST10 40 Patten says he is surprised how little political pressure there is on the BBC to be candid.
In one of her most candid interviews since succeeding Salmond as first minister last month, Nicola Sturgeon admitted that that the yes side had failed to do enough to counter the fears of voters after the pro-UK parties said they would refuse to form a currency union with an independent Scotland.
Anyone who's been a political reporter understands the routine use of tactical lying: I'm not alone in having sat in the reporters' gallery hearing myself denounced for having written a story "without foundation" by the very minister who – in a candid moment – let me in on a secret.
It was soon evident that his acquisition was primarily about money, but that didn't inhibit him from having a large say in the pro-Conservative party editorial policy, about which he was candid.
