Chiranjeevi Quotes

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.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

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.

I am not in politics to make more money.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

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.

I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.

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

We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

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 would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.