Access Quote by Ted Gup

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

— Kate Adie

That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't…

— Daniel Espinosa

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

— Ramsey Clark

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to…

— John McCain

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

— Damon Keith

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't…

— Dwight Schultz

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less…

— Norbert Wiener

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe…

— Katharine Graham

Information is the currency of democracy.

— Thomas Jefferson

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of…

— Donald Rumsfeld