As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
Interpretation
Transparency in government is essential for accountability to the public.
This quote by Al Gore emphasizes that for a government to serve its citizens effectively, its actions must be transparent. When government actions are hidden from the public eye, it can lead to a lack of accountability and trust, undermining the foundational principle of democracy where the government is meant to represent and serve the people.
In practice
During a town hall meeting to advocate for open government initiatives.
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.
But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.
I don't want to interfere in U.S. elections.
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear weβre going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And itβs long past time for the GOPβs leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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