We will be straight with the American people and true to our values.

When I'm President, this kind of transparency will be a part of my universal health care reform that provides every American with affordable, quality health care.

I led the fight in Illinois to pass the Hospital Report Cards Act that required hospitals to disclose details on nurse staffing and the quality of care so that everyone was aware how well their health care system worked.

America's workers and America's seniors deserve better, and the American public deserves to know exactly what's going on in these nursing homes.

I believe that the American people are ready for a leader who is honest, transparent, and who will always put their interests first.

They won't be able to answer that.

Transparent elections are the foundation of a democratic society.

The democratic countries of this hemisphere are united in our hope that the election be conducted in a transparent, peaceful, and statesmanlike manner.

I think it's important for people in public life to reveal their income tax returns.

I will have to disclose it.

It is unacceptable for us to continue to tolerate a system under the guise of local control or State responsibility or anything else that hides from the clear light of day to do better.

Too often they operate in secret.

I am very proud to be able to sign this legislation to bring lobbying in Washington into the sunlight of public scrutiny.

This law says the days of secret lobbying are over.

The American people have a right to know what's going to be cut, how it's going to affect them.

We are going to proceed and we are going to keep you posted on issues like that.

We will produce our documents.

I think that it's very, very important that while all this is going on, that the activity around it should be handled in such a way as to avoid even the appearance of a conflict.