Vito Fossella Quotes

All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

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.

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.

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 feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

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

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

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

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

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

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.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

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.

You cannot send mixed signals---not only to the American people but to the rest of the world.

To cover with the veil of secrecy the common routine of business is an abomination in the eyes of every intelligent man and every friend to his country.

The root of the problem [secrecy in government] is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated time and again its lack of confidence in the people.

John Chancellor said he could remember a time when arguments could be settled by government statistics. Today, nobody’s statistics can be trusted.

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.

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 lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.