Cheryl Mills Quotes

Accountability begins with transparency.

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

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

I respect the rules of the game.

There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

I refuse to lie to children.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

I'm a big proponent of accountability.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

I have observed that voluntary workers are apt to behave as if they are not bound to render a detailed account of the business or monies with which they are entrusted because, like Caesar's wife, they are above suspicion. This is sheer nonsense.

The only way we can do oversight is if people tell the truth.

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.

We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

Transparency matters.

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.