Quotes About Transparency

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.

I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap that can be turned on and off at their whim.

The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.

Truth will prevail.

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

The pricing of a pharmaceutical product is opaque and frustrating, especially for patients.

I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

We must face facts. I have made that my guiding principle in office.

It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow, the judiciary has propagated a view that the judiciary can only be accountable to itself.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It's been printed all over, so I don't feel like I am hiding anything.

Corruption is one of the high priorities of my agenda.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

I believe that we should keep the truth as a priority.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

Journalism itself is by no means pristine clean; it has as many corrupt elements as other sections of society.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.

I have no privacy anymore.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.