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.

...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.

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.

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.

But all them things exist, " said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

See where she comes apparelled like the spring.