Civil liberties Quote by Neil Macdonald

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government…

— Noah Feldman

Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for…

— Ari Melber

I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist…

— Angela Merkel

President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is…

— Jimmy Fallon

Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And…

— John O. Brennan

As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy on Americans…

— Neil Macdonald

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day…

— Jesse Ventura

Obama's election in 2008 marked a new dawn for hundreds of millions of people looking to an eloquent, constitutional lawyer for 'Hope' and 'Change'…

— Abby Martin

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and…

— Reince Priebus

I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so on the…

— Zephyr Teachout

“US journalists, for years overwhelmingly enamored of Barack Obama, were now commonly speaking of him in these terms: as some sort of grave menace…

— Glenn Greenwald

[Barack Obama] was comfortable when he had the foil.

— Chuck Todd