I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall, one from another. There are virtually no standards.

It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.

I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.