Quotes by Heather Brooke

About Heather Brooke:

Heather Rose Brooke is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin.
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The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people.

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When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.

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It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.

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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.

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The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

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You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.

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I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

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I like to write books and cause trouble.

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I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

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A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

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Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

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For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

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The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

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My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

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There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want their industry publicised.

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If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

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Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and ...

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We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individu...

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A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

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The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to s...

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Author Bio

  • NameHeather Brooke
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist