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ADAM COHEN To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state governme...
JOHN LYNCH![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER![]()
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the ag...
BUDDY DYER We're seeking the equivalent of a judicial rubber stamp that Big Loop is a public road. Basically, t...
CHUCK KALOGIANIS I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, a...
L. NEIL SMITH The bottom line is that government cannot cut constitutional corners even in pursuit of a goal it id...
GRAHAM BOYD Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy...
SCOTT TUROW The public has a right to know whether the government is doing what it's supposed to in cases like t...
FRANK GIBSON![]()
This is inevitable; it's long overdue; and the public has a fundamental right to have access to info...
GAVIN NEWSOM I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American pu...
JOHN CHANCELLOR Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES CBGB always gave musicians a platform to say important things, ... It's time we did something to sav...
PUBLIC ENEMY![]()
The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the...
SARAH HARRISON The library regrets having to reduce its service to the public for any reasons, so obviously we regr...
EMILY KICKLIGHTER That access is owned by the public. It shouldn't be blocked.
CAMDEN SMITH![]()
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura...
JOSEPH PULITZER It is paramount to promoting the public trust. I felt that way when I was mayor and I will hold true...
JAY VAVRICEK![]()
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies'...
LAWRENCE LESSIG It is shameful that France seeks to put its economic interests above international law, the environm...
YANNICK JADOT The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. t...
IRVING R. KAUFMAN The private lobbyist comes in with information he says he has, but doesn't show and they change publ...
GREG PERRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS If public officials just come out in a vacuum and tell people to leave, they're not going to do it. ...
JAY BAKER My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public...
ESTELLE MORRIS It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government Economi...
W. ALLEN WALLIS![]()
As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my pub...
DAVID HAREWOOD This is not about politics _ it's about good public policy and constitutional law.
DAVE MENZER If they have been meeting in secret for a month, those meetings are subject to the Sunshine, which m...
BARBARA PETERSEN An American citizen should be able to speak out against their public officials when they have a conc...
GERRY WEBER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I expected to have to fight with the federal government. I didn't expect to fight with the state. It...
DRUSCILLA MILLER You cannot hold officials accountable unless the public is aware of what they're doing.
BRENDA STEWART![]()
Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
KATE BROWN One issue is convincing the public that there are entities out there other than the media that reall...
LINDA LIGHTFOOT Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to ...
GREG ABBOTT After careful review, I have concluded that there was such a failure that this was an intentional an...
JIM JEFFORDS![]()
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought...
RICHARD SERRA Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON This is a public controversy and will remain a public controversy regardless of what the court acted...
JENNIFER PETERSON I would like to submit that 'private' means anything to which the public does not have access to by ...
DOUG CHRISTIE You and I each have a constitutional right that if our property is taken, it's taken for a public us...
LEE MCGRATH The indictments leave out all the federal law that there is as to the constitutional right of any bu...
ROY MINTON It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS This is so fundamental that most people take it for granted, and it only really hits home when they ...
DENNIS BAILEY It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public ...
ED DUMAS It's just really upsetting the public. It doesn't give the public a process to vent, if they have th...
JEANETTE WOODS![]()
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, ...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The reason the department refused to grant the few waiver is because this organization failed to dem...
CHAD COLBY The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the m...
TED STRICKLAND Monsanto's decision is at least a recognition that it has heard the public outcry and that the publi...
JANE RISSLER It is unconscionable that you could not find a way to open this process up to the public.
CYNTHIA BROWN The 'right to know' is more than the right to attend meetings of all boards and commissions. It exte...
PAUL GILLIES![]()
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the ot...
ANN RICHARDS I wouldn't put it that way. The event is open to public. It was announced in a press release.
BRIAN GROVE This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that governme...
HENDRIK SCHMIDT The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the com...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN![]()
The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD![]()
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public ...
C.S. LEWIS Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is apply...
THOMAS GRIFFITH![]()
The public deserved better from their elected officials,
DAVID DEWHURST![]()
I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and mi...
CHELSEA MANNING![]()
Alberto Mora sacrificed an illustrious legal career in government to oppose a policy that condoned t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY![]()
The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until t...
ELIOT SPITZER The public has the right to know why the police took the action they did, and that information is av...
JOEL WHITE There is the right of the public to know who is influencing public decisions.
CARL REDMAN Over all the years of doing this stuff, we've made a lot of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] reques...
DAN NOYES![]()
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human bei...
CASS SUNSTEIN It is unfortunate that it takes a tragedy like that for people to see the system working at its best...
CARROLL DOHERTY Every citizen has a right to inspect public record. However, any information related to students is ...
DONALD DUDLEY![]()
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct the...
DENNIS C. BLAIR![]()
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legisla...
PETER SINGER What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
BILL NELSON You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get acce...
JAY STEWART![]()
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civi...
HANNAH ARENDT A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the Uni...
ALEX THIERMANN It's their own words. We think the public has a right to know.
GREG BRAINER![]()
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE![]()
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
GEORGE MASON It does seem that there's good public support, and it seems that the administration has done a good ...
JOY SMOLNISKY In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promi...
CHARLES EDISON To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER Is the Public Access Counselor relevant?
KAREN DAVIS Saving species is a noble cause, ... But if it is so important then the public needs to open its wal...
GREG WALDEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Getting help from the U.S. government to open markets to get the right to fly to other countries is ...
GERALD GREENWALD They virtually have no public administration. There has been a huge, huge brain drain. Nobody wants ...
CARINE ROENEN Stuck in the midst of a public relations quagmire that no other company faces, Wal-Mart realizes tha...
CHRIS KOFINIS Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rott...
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE What possible reason do we have as representatives of the people to not allow them to use a public r...
SEN. GENE THERRIAULT The public health component of a governor's budget is discretionary. It is always the public health ...
KIM ELLIOTT Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a ...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in...
DANIEL MOYNIHAN Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a ...
DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN![]()
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.![]()
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for ele...
RACHEL MADDOW We had more than adequate staff to respond to the storm. We're doing a lot of work that is not visib...
ALBERTO BIANCHETTI
ADAM COHEN To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state governme...
JOHN LYNCH
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the ag...
BUDDY DYER We're seeking the equivalent of a judicial rubber stamp that Big Loop is a public road. Basically, t...
CHUCK KALOGIANIS I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, a...
L. NEIL SMITH The bottom line is that government cannot cut constitutional corners even in pursuit of a goal it id...
GRAHAM BOYD Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy...
SCOTT TUROW The public has a right to know whether the government is doing what it's supposed to in cases like t...
FRANK GIBSON
This is inevitable; it's long overdue; and the public has a fundamental right to have access to info... GAVIN NEWSOM I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowi...
ADRIA HARPER The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American pu...
JOHN CHANCELLOR Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES CBGB always gave musicians a platform to say important things, ... It's time we did something to sav...
PUBLIC ENEMY
The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the... SARAH HARRISON The library regrets having to reduce its service to the public for any reasons, so obviously we regr...
EMILY KICKLIGHTER That access is owned by the public. It shouldn't be blocked.
CAMDEN SMITH
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura... JOSEPH PULITZER It is paramount to promoting the public trust. I felt that way when I was mayor and I will hold true...
JAY VAVRICEK
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies'... LAWRENCE LESSIG It is shameful that France seeks to put its economic interests above international law, the environm...
YANNICK JADOT The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. t...
IRVING R. KAUFMAN The private lobbyist comes in with information he says he has, but doesn't show and they change publ...
GREG PERRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS If public officials just come out in a vacuum and tell people to leave, they're not going to do it. ...
JAY BAKER My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public...
ESTELLE MORRIS It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government Economi...
W. ALLEN WALLIS
As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my pub... DAVID HAREWOOD This is not about politics _ it's about good public policy and constitutional law.
DAVE MENZER If they have been meeting in secret for a month, those meetings are subject to the Sunshine, which m...
BARBARA PETERSEN An American citizen should be able to speak out against their public officials when they have a conc...
GERRY WEBER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I expected to have to fight with the federal government. I didn't expect to fight with the state. It...
DRUSCILLA MILLER You cannot hold officials accountable unless the public is aware of what they're doing.
BRENDA STEWART
Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws. KATE BROWN One issue is convincing the public that there are entities out there other than the media that reall...
LINDA LIGHTFOOT Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to ...
GREG ABBOTT After careful review, I have concluded that there was such a failure that this was an intentional an...
JIM JEFFORDS
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought... RICHARD SERRA Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON This is a public controversy and will remain a public controversy regardless of what the court acted...
JENNIFER PETERSON I would like to submit that 'private' means anything to which the public does not have access to by ...
DOUG CHRISTIE You and I each have a constitutional right that if our property is taken, it's taken for a public us...
LEE MCGRATH The indictments leave out all the federal law that there is as to the constitutional right of any bu...
ROY MINTON It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS This is so fundamental that most people take it for granted, and it only really hits home when they ...
DENNIS BAILEY It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public ...
ED DUMAS It's just really upsetting the public. It doesn't give the public a process to vent, if they have th...
JEANETTE WOODS
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, ... GEORGE HENRY LEWES The reason the department refused to grant the few waiver is because this organization failed to dem...
CHAD COLBY The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the m...
TED STRICKLAND Monsanto's decision is at least a recognition that it has heard the public outcry and that the publi...
JANE RISSLER It is unconscionable that you could not find a way to open this process up to the public.
CYNTHIA BROWN The 'right to know' is more than the right to attend meetings of all boards and commissions. It exte...
PAUL GILLIES
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the ot... ANN RICHARDS I wouldn't put it that way. The event is open to public. It was announced in a press release.
BRIAN GROVE This has given the South African public and the international community the impression that governme...
HENDRIK SCHMIDT The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the com...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN
The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public ... C.S. LEWIS Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is apply...
THOMAS GRIFFITH
The public deserved better from their elected officials, DAVID DEWHURST
I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and mi... CHELSEA MANNING
Alberto Mora sacrificed an illustrious legal career in government to oppose a policy that condoned t... CAROLINE KENNEDY
The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until t... ELIOT SPITZER The public has the right to know why the police took the action they did, and that information is av...
JOEL WHITE There is the right of the public to know who is influencing public decisions.
CARL REDMAN Over all the years of doing this stuff, we've made a lot of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] reques...
DAN NOYES
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human bei... CASS SUNSTEIN It is unfortunate that it takes a tragedy like that for people to see the system working at its best...
CARROLL DOHERTY Every citizen has a right to inspect public record. However, any information related to students is ...
DONALD DUDLEY
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct the... DENNIS C. BLAIR
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legisla... PETER SINGER What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
BILL NELSON You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get acce...
JAY STEWART
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civi... HANNAH ARENDT A lot has to do with the trust level between the public and government. We are very lucky in the Uni...
ALEX THIERMANN It's their own words. We think the public has a right to know.
GREG BRAINER
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. GEORGE MASON It does seem that there's good public support, and it seems that the administration has done a good ...
JOY SMOLNISKY In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promi...
CHARLES EDISON To simply muzzle someone because they're being critical of what their public servants are doing is r...
ADRIA HARPER Is the Public Access Counselor relevant?
KAREN DAVIS Saving species is a noble cause, ... But if it is so important then the public needs to open its wal...
GREG WALDEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Getting help from the U.S. government to open markets to get the right to fly to other countries is ...
GERALD GREENWALD They virtually have no public administration. There has been a huge, huge brain drain. Nobody wants ...
CARINE ROENEN Stuck in the midst of a public relations quagmire that no other company faces, Wal-Mart realizes tha...
CHRIS KOFINIS Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rott...
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE What possible reason do we have as representatives of the people to not allow them to use a public r...
SEN. GENE THERRIAULT The public health component of a governor's budget is discretionary. It is always the public health ...
KIM ELLIOTT Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a ...
DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in...
DANIEL MOYNIHAN Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a ...
DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C.
If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for ele... RACHEL MADDOW We had more than adequate staff to respond to the storm. We're doing a lot of work that is not visib...
ALBERTO BIANCHETTI
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them fe... 
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year... 
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... 
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th... 
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to... 
I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra... 
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We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of ou... 
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