Top 29 Public's Right To Know Quotes
#1. When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Christopher Dodd
#2. There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.
Roy Barnes
#3. It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams
#4. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.
Janet Malcolm
#5. Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#6. It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
Jack Anderson
#7. The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.
Chuck Grassley
#8. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
John P. Kotter
#9. I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
Stokely Carmichael
#10. Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
Crystal Eastman
#11. Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
Ann Richards
#12. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
#13. The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
Murray Rothbard
#14. We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.
Barry W. Lynn
#15. If we think that democracy is a good thing, then we must believe that the public should know as much as possible about what the government it elects is doing. Snowden has said that he made the disclosures because "the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.
Peter Singer
#16. We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.
Jose Ramos-Horta
#17. As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
Geoff Mulgan
#18. We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.
Matt De La Pena
#19. You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.
Christopher Walken
#20. My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.
Sarah Addison Allen
#21. Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#22. Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
#23. In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Gerald R. Ford
#25. I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.
Sean Combs
#26. My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
Joseph Howe
#27. I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
Lucy Stone
#28. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In
Marian Walsh
#29. I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.
Alessandra Torre
