A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely, and it won't. They want decency to come about without anybody suffering or being embarrassed, and it won't. And most of all they want to give many of the enemies of open government the benefit of the doubt, and I don't. It's not just a difference of approach, it's a complete schism in our respective philosophy. You can't go about disclosure in the hope that it won't spoil anybody's dinner.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.