Kathleen Blanco Quotes

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

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

All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

Few men in high places will admit a mistake.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

If you cannot trust our leaders, you cannot govern.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

The best system is the most accountable and transparent system

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

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

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.