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because I believe in open, honest government, where we hold our leaders accountable.
WESLEY CLARK People in and out of government tend to forget that government exists solely to do the bidding of th...
THOMAS MITCHELL These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that cit...
ANDY ALEXANDER Kentucky has a fairly good system in place to try to get the information out to the public and the p...
LEAH RUSH In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for d...
ALLEN WEINSTEIN![]()
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that g...
ROY BARNES These disasters continue to happen because this is a decaying state. The corrupt government official...
HESHAM KASSEM The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and a...
JOHN LYNCH It's exciting when citizens give us examples of courage, which it often takes to go up to a governme...
BILL CHAMBERLIN Citizens have a right to know. We have a right to know how government spends our money. More importa...
DARRELL OPFER![]()
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fa...
DONALD TRUMP We are still firmly in control, ... legal and democratically elected government.
FREDERICK CHILUBA![]()
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou...
DON MASHAK This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government mo...
GERRY NICHOLLS The government must be held accountable.
JOE STORK We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and...
JAN ADAMS When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth. The requirement to t...
PATRICK FITZGERALD![]()
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these sta...
STEPHEN COLBERT American citizens of all faiths have a right to attend religious conferences without having the gove...
CHRISTOPHER DUNN We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new gove...
CHRISTINA GALLACH![]()
We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and t...
TODD PARK![]()
Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making go...
RON DESANTIS We firmly support the rule of law and constitutional government. Violence should be avoided.
JANELLE HIRONIMUS They demonstrate patterns of behavior that have become standard operating procedure for denying Penn...
BARRY KAUFFMAN![]()
needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people.
ROBERT ZOELLICK Boeing is still committed to the United Launch Alliance as the right path for lower cost, reliable a...
DAN BECK Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
BETSY DEVOS![]()
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our so...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
MARK SKOUSEN![]()
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accoun...
RON PAUL We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - govern...
DOROTHY DENNING Clearly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't do its job. Now we have to find out why, and...
JIM MATHESON The distribution of cabinet jobs between Law & Justice and Citizens' Platform must be equal and fair...
KAZIMIERZ MARCINKIEWICZ Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways, ... The company...
CRAIG MCDONALD Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways. The company rel...
CRAIG MCDONALD Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector compa...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector compa...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
BOB EHRLICH![]()
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON![]()
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can...
BARACK OBAMA The citizens of this state deserve honest government.
PATRICK FITZGERALD This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that governme...
HENDRIK SCHMIDT Anything we do should be in the spirit of transparency and open government.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boo...
PETER DEFAZIO Citizens of the United States expect their government to be there in times of disaster and they were...
JANE BULLOCK We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it...
GERALD WEBER People believe. They believe in the desire of state government to help. They believe that the overwh...
BILL OWENS![]()
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on e...
JESSE VENTURA![]()
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so ev...
MARCO RUBIO Our main purpose for having the citizens government academy is really just to educate people in the ...
CATIEL FELTS I am very concerned that we spent all this time, money and energy for battle, where in other states ...
JOEL CAMPBELL![]()
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and a...
SAFRA A. CATZ I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
VICTORIA WOODHULL We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the...
YOSEF LAPID![]()
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy d...
AMITY SHLAES![]()
No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scruti...
ROY BARNES![]()
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...
LYSANDER SPOONER It's a big adversary when we don't perceive open government.
GEORGE RUHE![]()
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The gunmen are of Thai nationality but we believe that they were hired by secret agents who support ...
LT. COLSANTHIPAB MEEPHOL![]()
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...
LYSANDER SPOONER The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those ...
BETH SIMONE NOVECK We believe that the government shouldn't be able to go into your home without telling you, and that ...
TIMOTHY EDGAR Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not parti...
WALID JUMBLATT![]()
While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave vete...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND![]()
We simply can't keep these callers on hold because someone's cat is up a tree, ... Lives will be los...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY In the future, we believe the vice president can take over the daily operations of the government.
AKBAR TANDJUNG A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the Uni...
ALEX THIERMANN To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state governme...
JOHN LYNCH The events of the last several weeks have been remarkable in terms of what Kenyans have been able to...
COLIN BRUCE one of the most effective organizations in our government. It is responsive. It is changing and high...
CLAUDIA KENNEDY As they see their own government providing a way ahead that all of their citizens can understand as ...
GENPETER PACE The government wants the Indians to halt protests so we can start a dialogue.
ENRIQUE PROANO Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON Our government found a way to provide access to the ballot for Iraqis. But when it comes to former N...
MELANIE CAMPBELL![]()
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKEN The government is afraid of any organizing by its citizens -- they prefer we just take our orders fr...
DAI QING If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to ac...
MARC FABER I wish to assure the French government and people that their taxpayers' funds will be used in a dili...
FINANCE MINISTER NGANDU MAGANDE We believe this combination remains in the best interest of the government.
CHARLES MANOR This, essentially, retroactively withdraws those records from view and makes government unaccountabl...
SCOTT ARMSTRONG![]()
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government po...
MIKE PENCE That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any w...
JO MANEY i find it funny how republicans want less government yet their actions contradict this. if they want...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR They think they’re runnin’ the country but all they’re doin’ is writin’ the reports.” Fr...
D. M. MCGOWAN![]()
The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town ...
STEPHEN HARPER![]()
Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage ...
RICK PERRY The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn'...
DAVID BALL I'm not blaming anyone in particular, but whoever in the government is responsible for this has to b...
AL LASSO![]()
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an importa...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES![]()
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.
JAMES HANSEN We can tell the citizens we will fight for their rights and we can say that this is going to be the ...
ZORAN DJINDJIC In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government...
ROBERT JEFFRESS Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.
DENNY REHBERG How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access? ... How come they didn't h...
JANIS KARPINSKI![]()
Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region a...
GARY ACKERMAN![]()
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,
ANTONIO GUTERRES![]()
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l...
DORA RUSSELL The big thing is that students deserve stronger student government. I believe very strongly in stude...
EVAN ROSS
WESLEY CLARK People in and out of government tend to forget that government exists solely to do the bidding of th...
THOMAS MITCHELL These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that cit...
ANDY ALEXANDER Kentucky has a fairly good system in place to try to get the information out to the public and the p...
LEAH RUSH In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for d...
ALLEN WEINSTEIN
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that g... ROY BARNES These disasters continue to happen because this is a decaying state. The corrupt government official...
HESHAM KASSEM The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and a...
JOHN LYNCH It's exciting when citizens give us examples of courage, which it often takes to go up to a governme...
BILL CHAMBERLIN Citizens have a right to know. We have a right to know how government spends our money. More importa...
DARRELL OPFER
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fa... DONALD TRUMP We are still firmly in control, ... legal and democratically elected government.
FREDERICK CHILUBA
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accou... DON MASHAK This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government mo...
GERRY NICHOLLS The government must be held accountable.
JOE STORK We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and...
JAN ADAMS When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth. The requirement to t...
PATRICK FITZGERALD
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these sta... STEPHEN COLBERT American citizens of all faiths have a right to attend religious conferences without having the gove...
CHRISTOPHER DUNN We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new gove...
CHRISTINA GALLACH
We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and t... TODD PARK
Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making go... RON DESANTIS We firmly support the rule of law and constitutional government. Violence should be avoided.
JANELLE HIRONIMUS They demonstrate patterns of behavior that have become standard operating procedure for denying Penn...
BARRY KAUFFMAN
needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people. ROBERT ZOELLICK Boeing is still committed to the United Launch Alliance as the right path for lower cost, reliable a...
DAN BECK Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
BETSY DEVOS
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our so... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
MARK SKOUSEN
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accoun... RON PAUL We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - govern...
DOROTHY DENNING Clearly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't do its job. Now we have to find out why, and...
JIM MATHESON The distribution of cabinet jobs between Law & Justice and Citizens' Platform must be equal and fair...
KAZIMIERZ MARCINKIEWICZ Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways, ... The company...
CRAIG MCDONALD Enron depends upon government policies to enhance their bottom line in lots of ways. The company rel...
CRAIG MCDONALD Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector compa...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector compa...
CHRIS HOOFNAGLE We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
BOB EHRLICH
The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a ... EZRA TAFT BENSON
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can... BARACK OBAMA The citizens of this state deserve honest government.
PATRICK FITZGERALD This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that governme...
HENDRIK SCHMIDT Anything we do should be in the spirit of transparency and open government.
COUNCILMAN VAN PEARLBERG A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boo...
PETER DEFAZIO Citizens of the United States expect their government to be there in times of disaster and they were...
JANE BULLOCK We believe that spying on American citizens for no good reason is fundamentally un-American, that it...
GERALD WEBER People believe. They believe in the desire of state government to help. They believe that the overwh...
BILL OWENS
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on e... JESSE VENTURA
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so ev... MARCO RUBIO Our main purpose for having the citizens government academy is really just to educate people in the ...
CATIEL FELTS I am very concerned that we spent all this time, money and energy for battle, where in other states ...
JOEL CAMPBELL
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and a... SAFRA A. CATZ I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
VICTORIA WOODHULL We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the...
YOSEF LAPID
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy d... AMITY SHLAES
No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scruti... ROY BARNES
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no... LYSANDER SPOONER It's a big adversary when we don't perceive open government.
GEORGE RUHE
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli... BENJAMIN DISRAELI The gunmen are of Thai nationality but we believe that they were hired by secret agents who support ...
LT. COLSANTHIPAB MEEPHOL
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov... LYSANDER SPOONER The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those ...
BETH SIMONE NOVECK We believe that the government shouldn't be able to go into your home without telling you, and that ...
TIMOTHY EDGAR Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not parti...
WALID JUMBLATT
While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave vete... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND
We simply can't keep these callers on hold because someone's cat is up a tree, ... Lives will be los... KATHLEEN KENNEDY In the future, we believe the vice president can take over the daily operations of the government.
AKBAR TANDJUNG A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the Uni...
ALEX THIERMANN To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state governme...
JOHN LYNCH The events of the last several weeks have been remarkable in terms of what Kenyans have been able to...
COLIN BRUCE one of the most effective organizations in our government. It is responsive. It is changing and high...
CLAUDIA KENNEDY As they see their own government providing a way ahead that all of their citizens can understand as ...
GENPETER PACE The government wants the Indians to halt protests so we can start a dialogue.
ENRIQUE PROANO Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON Our government found a way to provide access to the ballot for Iraqis. But when it comes to former N...
MELANIE CAMPBELL
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. AL FRANKEN The government is afraid of any organizing by its citizens -- they prefer we just take our orders fr...
DAI QING If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to ac...
MARC FABER I wish to assure the French government and people that their taxpayers' funds will be used in a dili...
FINANCE MINISTER NGANDU MAGANDE We believe this combination remains in the best interest of the government.
CHARLES MANOR This, essentially, retroactively withdraws those records from view and makes government unaccountabl...
SCOTT ARMSTRONG
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government po... MIKE PENCE That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any w...
JO MANEY i find it funny how republicans want less government yet their actions contradict this. if they want...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR They think they’re runnin’ the country but all they’re doin’ is writin’ the reports.” Fr...
D. M. MCGOWAN
The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town ... STEPHEN HARPER
Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage ... RICK PERRY The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn'...
DAVID BALL I'm not blaming anyone in particular, but whoever in the government is responsible for this has to b...
AL LASSO
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an importa... JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
As a government employee, you can't testify against the government. JAMES HANSEN We can tell the citizens we will fight for their rights and we can say that this is going to be the ...
ZORAN DJINDJIC In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government...
ROBERT JEFFRESS Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.
DENNY REHBERG How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access? ... How come they didn't h...
JANIS KARPINSKI
Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region a... GARY ACKERMAN
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,
ANTONIO GUTERRES
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act l... DORA RUSSELL The big thing is that students deserve stronger student government. I believe very strongly in stude...
EVAN ROSS
