Quotes About Accountability

Governments are not always right.

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

I hope when I am governor and it's all over, I am a governor who underpromised and overdelivered.

Being Governor is a full-time responsibility.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

Running to do a job as important as the governor's shouldn't be easy; it should take a lot of work, and I'm out there giving my best every day.

I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.

When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

The job of the governor of the state of Florida is to do what is in the best interest of the people of the state of Florida.

I will work with the governor no matter who the governor is. And I will always be Maya Wiley when I do it. That means I will call it as I see it.

Governors are closer to the people than those in D.C., and we don't see any results from D.C.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

I do not take anything for granted - I like to shoulder every responsibility.

It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?

I'm one of these guys who believes you represent the people who sent you to Washington, D.C., not matter what the cost. The cost could be very grave.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'