Corporations Quote by Alex Gibney

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places,…

— Woodrow Wilson

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

— Daniel Schorr

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

— E. J. Dionne

With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from.…

— Jimmy Carter

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

— Alex Gibney

[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is…

— Julian Sanchez

We need to prioritize ending the influence of corporate special interests and secret money on politicians by limiting the amount of money they can…

— Tina Smith

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes

Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump hundreds and…

— Bernie Sanders

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you leave government life for greener private sector pastures, why on earth do you still need to peep into the nether reaches of…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

— Daniel Schorr