Quotes About Accountability

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.

The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

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.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

Good government is good politics.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.