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To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.