Quotes About Accountability

I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

Government officials should recognize that the files in front of them represent very important issues in the lives of people.

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.

We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

My job as governor is different from the legislators. They represent their districts. I have to represent all 6.6 million Tennesseans and come to the best decisions I can.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

The real issue is, are you available to the folks you represent? And I am.

I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

The people have the right to know whether or not the person they elect has the capacity to represent them.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

I have been a national president who gets the job done and who listens and leads effectively. My first term was about dragging the NUS kicking and screaming into the 21st century to make it more effective and representative.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.