Todd Young Quotes

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

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

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.

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 day corruption charges are levelled against me, I would retire and sit at home.

We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people.

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.