Administration Quote by Ted Gup

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the…

— Stephen Cambone

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

“when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency”

— Luc Zandvliet

Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

— Heather Brooke

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or…

— John C. Calhoun

Bureaucrats want bigger bureaus. Special interests are interested in whatever's special to them. These two groups bring great pressure to bear upon politicians who…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure…

— Judith M Bardwick

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily…

— Randal Marlin

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the…

— Ted Gup

[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is…

— Julian Sanchez

Lack of transparency results in distrust, insecurity & erodes ones integrity.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

— Glenn Greenwald