Cabinets Quote by Robert O. Paxton

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is…

— Michael Moore

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on…

— Helen Thomas

We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering…

— Beyers Naude

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack…

— Elliott Abrams

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

— Will Rogers

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

Wikileaks is providing information on what ambassadors are sending to Washington and things like that. Maybe some of that has a right to some…

— Noam Chomsky

It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information…

— Ted Gup

There are certainly some secrets the government needs to protect, but many of the most important clues about revolutions, nuclear transfers, and new military…

— David E. Sanger

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of…

— Bob Graham

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the…

— Maya Angelou