Cheer Quote by Bernard Ingham

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely…

— Peter Singer

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

Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

— Heather Brooke

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

— Donald Rumsfeld

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted…

— Glenn Greenwald

The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet…

— Charles Kennedy

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not…

— Noam Chomsky

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society… if officials make…

— Sissela Bok

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship…

— Dick Cheney

A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds…

— Russell B. Long

I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.

— Damian Green