Quotes About Accountability

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.