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The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems. -- Beth Simone Noveck
I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. -- Bill Dedman
I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff. -- George W. Bush
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government. -- Doug LaMalfa
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.' -- John Cornyn
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats. -- Evgeny Morozov
In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government. -- Carl Paladino
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. -- Roy Barnes
Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices. -- Subcomandante Marcos
Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government. -- Denny Rehberg
Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people. -- Muqtada al Sadr
There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration. -- Kathleen Sebelius
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009. -- Peter Singer
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. -- John Lynch
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention. -- Henry Paulson
As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage. -- Henry Paulson
After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office. -- Jesse Ventura
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable. -- Noah Feldman
The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want. -- Edward Felten
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith. -- Laura Chinchilla
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office. -- Roy Barnes
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. -- Jay Weatherill
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. -- John Lynch
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government -- Roy Barnes
I dream of a Digital India where Government is open and Governance is Transparent. -- Narendra Modi
Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day. -- Rick Perry
...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best. -- John Ringo
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. -- Herbert Hoover
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights. -- Michael Moriarty
We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments. -- Kim Campbell
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. -- William O. Douglas
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. -- William J. Brennan
Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back. -- Anthony Foxx
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. -- Thomas Jefferson
Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible. -- James T. Walsh
The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. -- Harry Seidler
The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. -- Harry Seidler

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