Quotes About Accountability

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my camera, my pen, my pad, and my network to do my part, to make sure that Americans will no longer fear their government. Or its employees. They work for us - not the other way around.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

I'm a big fan of public trust.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage.

We made mistakes publicly.

When you go through things publicly, there's no hiding.