Top 24 Quotes About Transparency In Government
#1. I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
Mike Quigley
#2. Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland
#3. We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
Marco Rubio
#4. I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#5. Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
Julian Assange
#6. Now, with the Transparency Act, the government has set out to reveal wrongdoing by chiefs, not the Department. There is nothing wrong with the act except the context, the attitude and the political purpose.
John Ralston Saul
#7. Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
#8. Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
Mike Quigley
#9. I don't think it's that controversial. I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I'm surprised they weren't.
Mary-Louise Parker
#10. In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#11. Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security.
Kenneth Eade
#12. Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg
#13. I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other facets of society, and this includes open access to all of the many available types of information.
Robert David Steele
#14. A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
Mark Foley
#15. I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
Carly Fiorina
#16. But, you see, it is not so much in the things we say to them about Christ, but more in the things we do for them that mirror the ways of Christ.
John Corey Whaley
#17. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
#18. Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence
at least in the United States of America
represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.
Robert David Steele
#20. We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
Carly Fiorina
#21. Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized.
Howard Zinn
#22. It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And
Stephen R. Covey
#23. There is no transparency, Marus. It can't exist. Surveillance doesn't go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.
Celeste Chaney
#24. What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Esther Dyson
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