Danielle Brian Quotations

We are talking about the same issues and in many cases the same players as before.

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

He wasn't a bad guy, particularly, but he wasn't a good guy, either. You would have hoped someone in his position would have stopped it.

James Lee Witt is giving his seal of approval to some companies, and I question whether that is appropriate as you leave government. He is lending his credibility as a public official to help companies advance in Washington.

The government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests.

It was a bombshell for us when we saw what Time had done. We had always worried about a sloppy reporter, but I never thought there'd be a concerted decision made to turn over names.

Thank goodness Sen. Grassley is providing some adult supervision. It's not just the taxpayers who are harmed by the current Monopoly money mentality in Washington, D.C., but more directly the hurricane survivors themselves. Every penny spent should help the survivors instead of lining the pockets of disaster profiteers.

Our concern is the exorbitant costs and how few fighters we get for the money.

Our experience has shown that companies are happiest when no information is shared. The threshold for releasing information under the Freedom of Information Act is high. If the Defense Department believes these records should be made public, then it raises questions about why the company wants to keep them secret.

This is exactly the kind of inquiry that should be taking place.

This is an area where the federal government falls flat on its face.

A lot of people need a lot of money now that Katrina has devastated so many communities. Should it be the taxpayers' first priority to make a contractor at the shipyard whole? Money to Northrop means that it is not going to someone else who might need it.

It was definitively proven that these very companies had knowingly been cheating on oil for years, if not decades. To ignore the likelihood that the same thing is happening on the gas side is absurd.

It is undeniable that unprecedented numbers of government whistleblowers face retaliation with no adequate protections. We are stunned that the Congress is offended to hear the truth about its failure to help whistleblowers and are even punishing their own seasoned researchers for talking about it.

If there is an attack on a nuclear plant with the weapons and tactics described -- weapons and tactics against which the Commission decided were not important to defend -- (the) records will reveal to the public exactly who ... dismissed the actual threats.

Clearly our priorities are perverse. Our government punishes the good guys and lets, in some cases, the really bad guys help run the show and set the agendas.

He's a person who did not put the appearance of ethics above all else. That is not the way the government should function. These are the kind of things that make the general public distrust government.