Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

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.

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.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

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

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

All persons who take part in government are accountable for their actions.

I want my government to be transparent.

We'll continue to build a nation that is trusted by its people.

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

People want transparency in government.