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The power to investigate is a great public trust.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

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.

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.