Kapil Sibal Quotes

I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity.

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

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.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible is evil.

And I think after the history of this first term is written and you look back, you're going to see that compared to other administrations or by any other standard you'd want to apply, that it has been an extraordinarily clean, corruption-free administration because the President [Nixon] insists on that.

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.

I've always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office.

You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

While everyone is entitled to a little vacation now and then, America's top legal officers should adhere to basic measures to increase accountability and restore the public's trust in government.

An intuitive part of the American ethos is a kind of protectiveness of the public's fear. We have to remember how unique that is. As scandal-ridden as we may be, we start with a basic expectation that it's not your job in public service to use it to help your friend.

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.