"Love the Sunshine Law, every state should have it."
"The only way we're going to start healing this country is if the government starts telling the truth."
"America kills its enemies in our name and then keeps it a secret."
"None of that can happen if year after year lethal strikes are hidden from view."
"This is the real deal Justin Trudeau is being busted for literally handpicking Senators."
"Our democracy demands no less than full transparency."
"I call on the cabinet office to allow Mr. Hancock to write an appendix for his book containing the redacted passages on the lab leak theory."
"What the American people need especially in a moment like this is straight answers and they need to believe that their government is using the tools that we have."
"It is confirmed, the federal government is lying to you, they are withholding evidence from January 6th defendants."
"Americans should be asking themselves, 'What else are they lying about?'"
"I'm inclined to pardon him, of course. I believe everything that he showed us, that the federal government is lying to us."
"The White House has been far more aggressive in its claims that congressional oversight can be limited, curbed, and constrained by the executive’s desire to keep things under wraps."
"The people of China should be able to get access to the very best information."
"Covered up the nursing home death toll figures."
"We're going into transition to greatness. We'll have a phenomenal year next year."
"Major victory for the states and the people who want to know what the federal government was doing, who they were colluding with to suppress information."
"The court found it dubious that a FOIA exception invoked by the government could be used to shield illegal business practices."
"It's important that there be this commitment to transparency by the administration generally."
"People are now getting attuned to the realities, to the facts, and they're not going to let the government fool them again."
"The monumental weight of the Pentagon's disclosure left not just lay people but also analysts, politicians, and strategic thinkers pondering one pivotal question: why now?"
"We reviewed all of the documents provided by Maricopa County in response to our requests and the answer is that none of the documents that they created meet the requirements."
"This is a win for transparency and accountability in our government."
"THE NOTION THAT THEY COULD BE MEETING WITHOUT ANY OTHER OFFICIALS OR AIDES PRESENT JUST SHOULD SCARE THE HECK OUT OF NOT JUST 97 SENATORS BUT ALL OF US."
"If people ask, do I have an agenda? Yes, my agenda is that never again does our country, and I do hope no other country does it either, go down this route in such an ill-informed candid and at times deeply sinister fashion."
"Georgians deserve to know where their federal tax dollars are going."
"After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of this investigation, having uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia."
"When those in the highest offices of power can evade the truth, flee from accountability, and disregard the principles of ethical conduct, it erodes the foundation of our Republic."
"What we need is a government that is honest with us about the risks."
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THE GOVERNMENT GETTING THEIR INFORMATION."
"If this gets out, the government is betraying the American people."
"Taiwan's response to the coronavirus has been diligent, open, and transparent."
"With the absence of the Fourth Estate and independent science and independent oversight from the Public Interest the Commonwealth they've been able to get away with enormous deception since the 50s."
"It's all gonna be declassified, it's all gonna come out." - Speaker
"Reporters are people who are paid to find out what government is doing and tell you about it so democracy can continue."
"Maybe Trudeau is very much aware of the uselessness of AI to the average Canadian, yet still heavily invests in the technology for more nefarious reasons."
"His transparency alone and his ability to connect with people would have changed how people see the role of government."
"We need the government to be more open and provide the data we need."
"What I can tell you is even maybe the Chinese government doesn't know how many people got infected and also died."
"We deserve to know whether our president is up to the job no matter which party they are from."
"The government is going to have a hard time explaining this."
"Democrats are looking to further abolish the fossil fuel industry."
"Individuals have the right to question their government and to control their government and have information above their government about what's going on."
"Do you believe your government tells you the truth about everything all the time?"
"Transparency is key. Government buildings should have no doors, anyone can walk in anytime."
"Governments, especially the US, UK, and France, are always demanding transparency yet they don't hold themselves to the standards that they demand of others."
"The American people have a right to know what their government's been up to."
"Just be transparent with the American people because they were covering it up. That's why they wanted to sweep this whole thing under the rug." - Jim Jordan
"Prosecution and transparency is the only way to save our way of life."
"It's shocking that an administration that literally built itself online to the American people and to the media every single day was hiding information about a pandemic."
"I really think we're worth fighting for, and we're never ever going to survive if we don't move this planet to telling the truth about what the governments know is friendly, unfriendly, or neutral and what our real relationship is to them."
"I'm gonna teach people how to not be such a**holes."
"The American people can always be trusted to evaluate information and make their own judgments and decisions when bureaucrats and partisan activists withhold data to advance a narrative."
"All of the world's governments and regulated industries will run on open auditable models because you can't run on black boxes."
"The Pentagon and Intel agencies are reportedly feuding tonight on how much the public should know."
"The government should know almost nothing about you and I but we should know everything about the government and what they're doing."
"Every member of Congress should always be on the record so that you and I as their voters know exactly where they stand on every single issue."
"I know I've been repeating that a lot throughout this video, but it is what it is... I'm very grateful for the practice of gratitude."
"If you're a government official and you are panicked at the idea that what you are doing will become public you're doing something wrong by definition."
"The State Department has concluded the Hillary Clinton email review."