Freedom Of Information Act Quotes

#1. [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Antonin Scalia

#2. The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

Sibel Edmonds

#3. I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Phil Jones

#4. Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.

Assata Shakur

#5. So long as the investigation is still open, Gunnels explains, there is no way to request documents pertaining to the case through the Freedom of Information Act. "That investigation will probably stay open a long time," he says.

Matt Taibbi

#6. The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Will

#7. Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ... But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

Henry A. Kissinger

#8. Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

Patrick Leahy

#9. America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Mitt Romney

#10. There are those among us who find monsters quite attractive, Vesta said.

David Wellington

#11. The reality is that tomorrow is most certainly uncertain and no matter how many expectations we form, tomorrow will come, tomorrow will go and it will all be what it will be.

Lori Deschene

#12. My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Iyanla Vanzant

#13. Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#14. The worst form of snobbery is to deny information; to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable.

Matthew Blakstad

#15. The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

Ted Cruz

#16. Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Branch Rickey

#17. It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

Charles Ferguson

#18. is possible for the person who has faith. Still

Brother Lawrence

#19. Every long travel changes man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.

Jamie Bartlett

#21. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57

Orit Badouk Epstein

#22. There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

Anurag Kashyap

#23. I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Helena Rutherfurd Ely