Quotes About Transparency

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana - what are you talking about? You're always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.

Regardless of what side of the issue you are on, the release of the Mueller Report is essential to restoring faith in our government.

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.

Under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the Justice Department prosecuted more people for having unauthorized discussions with reporters than all prior administrations combined.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

Every exchange between reporters and officials is important - that's why every State press briefing is put into the archives.

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

Yes, there's still much good journalism to be found, if you know where to look. Yet, ask reporters who've been around a while, and many will tell you that a lot of good journalism is being left unpublished.

In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

In many cases, here we are, putting out reports that we're spending $100 million a year on, and we're telling the public, 'Oh, you don't have access to them.'

I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.

I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.

The people have the right to know whether or not the person they elect has the capacity to represent them.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

It's really hard for me to beat around the bush or lie, so sometimes the truth hurts.