That openness comes with a cost. If you could have gotten the property at $100,000 less, you would have saved taxpayers $100,000. The cure would be the public would not have a right to know, and that's wrong.

All it does is put us in a position to take 10 years to build projects that should have been built 10 years ago.

The important thing is with police manpower - if it can give them a different set of eyes, if it can make them aware of a sensitive situation as it happens, if it allows them to prevent something from happening, it makes downtown a safer and more secure environment.

We operate off the law and the premise that all documents we have here are public documents, whether on public computers, on public file, generated by public employees.

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.