Bill Scott Quotes

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

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

I am the only public servant and the only Mexican President ever who has made his finances public from before, during, and after public service.

Surely we don’t want the President to lie, we don’t want our senators to lie, we don’t want our congressmen to lie. But sometimes they do.

Pubic business must be done. It will be done one way or another. If wise men refuse it, others will not. If honest men refuse it, others will not.

I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take on the culture of corruption.

If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it.

America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

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

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.