Christine Quinn Quotes

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.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

In the tough and dangerous world in which we live a President must always say what he means and mean what he says.

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 American people are starved for two things: The truth and leadership.

Leaders can either lead or mislead. If you lead, you must lead with facts.

You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

The truth will only be told over a career.

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.

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

I refuse to lie to children.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

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

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.

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.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

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 was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.