Quotes About Accountability

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

We regret mistakes were made.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.