Administration Quote by 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

Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I…

— David Rubenstein

In 2008, Obama rode to victory in good part by wearing the openness face, casting the Bush administration as intrusive, secretive hawks who had…

— 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

The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing…

— Anne Weismann

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule…

— Maureen Dowd

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

Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make…

— Stephen F. Hayes

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

This president and this is what the focus ought to be, it's not the differences between us, it's Barack Obama does not believe America's…

— Jeb Bush

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

— Allan Bloom