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.

...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.

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.

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.

When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of pure love hidden in my heart.

You are a good counter...T-Man (......You used the F word 31 times.......)

You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Suicide is not a remedy

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.