Fritz Sauckel Quotes

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

You’re doing the people’s business and they have a right to know.

I'm somebody's who's in favor of transparency and openness.

The more government transparency, the better.

Transparency will be at the heart of everything I do - it's what parliament expects, and it's what the public deserves.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

Public disclosure is one of the great disinfectants ever invented.

Our government cannot function cloaked in secrecy. It cannot function unless officials tell the truth.

We all make mistakes. In public life, we make them in public view.

… a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government

… institutions have lost their credibility, not because they don't operate but rather because they operate behind closed doors; they have not been opened to the Chilean people.

There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.