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

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Mike Quigley
American - Politician
Born: October 17, 1958

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Mike Quigley

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

Christopher Buckley

In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

Gary Herbert

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

Safra A. Catz

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Carly Fiorina

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

H. L. Mencken

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

Barack Obama

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

Audie Cornish

Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

Edmund Morgan

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

Victor Hugo

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

Asha Rangappa

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

John Thune

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

Heather Brooke

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

Merrick Garland

Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important, however, is that transparent communications reflect the Federal Reserve's commitment to accountability within our democratic system of government.

Janet Yellen

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Louise Slaughter

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