Leo Varadkar Quotes

It is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as the measures.

Politicians dare to fail publicly.

All persons who take part in government are accountable for their actions.

If every politician, in or out of government, were made to apologize for injudicious remarks, he would have little time to do anything else.

If the great servants of the public forget their duty, betray their trust and sell their country, or make war against the most valuable rights and privileges of the people; reason and justice require that they should be discarded, and others appointed in their room, without any regard to formal resignations of their forfeited power.

Armed with purity of intentions and firmness of purpose, I may reasonably entertain the hope of being able to clear the administrative agency of all corruption and incompetency, and impart to it the maximum of honesty and efficiency. I now warn my officials of all ranks that I have fully made up my mind to put down corruption and intrigue wherever they may be found.

Members [of Congress] never make mistakes. Only the [congressional] staff make mistakes.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases.

We politicians are no great shakes, but you voters are no day at the beach.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

If it becomes necessary for me to act, or merely to lay before the Congress a statement of what occurred, I want to know fully the exact facts.

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

I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption.

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I've spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.

Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

We should work towards a legislation to sack non-performing politicians. This may not happen during my lifetime, but I will try for it anyway.

I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who makes promises here in Indiana and then keeps them in Washington.

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.