Conner Eldridge Quotes

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

One of the greatest things that we provide in our democracy is the approachability of public officials.

Government is the creature of the people, and that which they have created they surely have a right to examine.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

What makes our country unique is its commitment to being open, to making its leaders accountable.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

If there is a problem with democracy, the answer has to be more democracy.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.