Roy Barnes Quotes

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

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

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

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

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 have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

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

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's 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.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

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

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The more government transparency, the better.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

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.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.