Smriti Irani Quotes

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

No one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another .... The duties of all public officers are ... so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.

One of the greatest things that we provide in our democracy is the approachability of public officials.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

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

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.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

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

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

[The test of government] ... is not how popular it is among the powerful and privileged few, but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend upon it.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

The cycle of impunity must be broken …. Authorities must be held responsible …. Without accountability, democracy cannot be consolidated. We will remove the veil of impunity that covers the truth.

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.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense

I want to live … where the people who make the rules have to live by them.