Sean Spicer Quotes

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

A politician is well-qualified if his promises are, too.

Do after election as before election you said you would.

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

The politician is your best friend - he always wants to be there when he's asking for your vote. But then, often, he doesn't have time for you when he gets into office. To me, it's the opposite. They should listen to you more when they're actually in office.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.

The public, by and large, trusts its leaders not only to tell the truth, but to get the job done. When they don’t get the job done, they get punished, and when they don’t get the job done and it comes out that they lied, they’re in really serious trouble. This is what happened to [Lyndon] Johnson and it’s what happened to [George W,] Bush. If you’re going to tell a lie, make sure the policy works out.

From my experience with 5 presidential elections, candidates sometimes say things when campaigning that they don't necessacerily do when they are governing.

Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different.

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

In any campaign you make a lot of promises and you talk about a wide range of issues. When you're elected, the work of accomplishing those goals has to be sequenced. You can't do everything at once.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

Fulfilling your promises is the easiest way to get elected, and breaking your promises is the easiest way to get fired.

The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running for president. How reliable was he at keeping promises? How much moral responsibility did he feel to help those less fortunate than he? By the end of the election, I felt I'd done my job.

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.