Quotes About Accountability

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

The essence of good government is trust.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.