Top 33 Transparency Of Government Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
Edward L. Bernays
#3. 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
#4. I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.
Carly Fiorina
#5. 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
#7. Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security.
Kenneth Eade
#8. 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
#9. I just am a huge fan of PBS. They've taken great risks from great shows.
Kim Raver
#10. 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
#11. Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
Mike Quigley
#12. Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Bill Gates
#13. Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.
Henry Ford
#14. I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#15. I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
April Winchell
#16. 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
#17. I looked up. Mom looked down at me with the compassion/practicality combo that was her trademark.
MaryJanice Davidson
#18. At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care - if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.
Gore Vidal
#19. 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
#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
#22. Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
Iain Duncan Smith
#23. I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.
Tony Martin
#24. Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Merrick Garland
#25. It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.
Mike Carey
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. You breathe too fast to be convincing,' he goaded.
'You don't breathe enough to judge me.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#29. As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.
Dorothy Day
#30. Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
Julian Assange
#32. I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.
Stacy Allison
#33. 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
