Believe Quote by Woodrow Wilson

Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth…

— Joseph Sobran

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

— Jay Weatherill

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely…

— Peter Singer

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under…

— Thomas Jefferson

“One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is…

— Michel Templet

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of…

— Thomas Frank

The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting…

— James Bovard

I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Heather Brooke

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

— Milton Friedman

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

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

— Tom Fitton