Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole in securities regulations that allows for immediate trades.
While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major role in our elections.
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish.
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.
With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.
