“Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.” Quote by Ryan Shapiro
“The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions.” LyingValuesNationsSecurityInstitutions Author:Murray Gurfein
“Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.” GovernmentDemocracyImpossibleInformationFunctionAccessOperationsBroadsCitizenryAccess To InformationInformed Citizenry Author:Ryan Shapiro
“The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.” PeopleGovernmentPracticeRecordsBrokenPropertyDemocraticNotion Author:Ryan Shapiro
“The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly everything in its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.” DoeCommunityInformationFairsComplianceAllergicIntelligence Community Author:Ryan Shapiro
“Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.” DemocracyFunctionCitizenryInformed Citizenry Author:Ryan Shapiro
“I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.” PeopleGovernmentRecordsReturnCitizensCallingActivityAccessOwnersIllegalImmoralUnconstitutional Author:Ryan Shapiro
“As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.” WorldUniverseGrowsHistorianPeterExceedHarvardStaggeringDisparity Author:Ryan Shapiro
“I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.” WritingBelieveWholeSongOrderI BelieveLevelsCreativityStandardsPerformancesDefinitionsPopsPop MusicHigh LevelPopular SongHigh Standards Author:Nina Simone
“It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.” ThinkingTryingHardDifficultWalksStandardsPressureMaking Money Author:Nina Simone
“The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.” ShowsMy OwnStandardsPressureConvictionShow BusinessFickle Author:Nina Simone