Murray Seasongood Quotes

Good government is good politics.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Knowledge is the cause as well as the effect of good government

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Dialoging is the first principle of good government.

Listening ... is good government.

Ordinary people want good government.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

The essence of good government is trust.

The world wants good government and a plenty of it, not liberty.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

There are two rules for mayors: Be there and do something.

Trust: Our system of government does not function without it.

Parties are means for good government and not its ends.

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Politics is a good thing!

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

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.