Katharine Gun Quotes

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

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

Why is there so much resistance among people who work in the Government to the seemingly obvious fact that, in our democracy, if the Government lies, it will eventually get caught

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

The CIA claims that secrecy is necessary to hide what it's doing from enemies of the United States ... the real reason for secrecy is to hide what the CIA is doing from the American people.

Secrecy in government, in the public mind, becomes synonymous with deception in government.

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.