Act Quote by Charles Kennedy

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

Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which…

— Bernard Ingham

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

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

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

— Jay Weatherill

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

One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary…

— Ted Gup

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government…

— Wayne Allyn Root

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though…

— Breyten Breytenbach

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

— Sean Spicer