Richard Painter Quotes

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

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

We need sensible people in the system, who are honest and passionate about the country and will not fall pray to corruption.

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

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

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

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

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.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

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

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I'm a big fan of public trust.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

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

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

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.

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.