Frank Moore Colby Quotes

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.

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

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.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

The only way to have clean politics is to pay party district and city leaders as business executives.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

Some States just have a good political culture. It’s not all greed driven.

Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

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.

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

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

The best citizens were supposed to desire honest men in office, men who would not take bribes, men who would appoint high-minded men as their subordinates, men who would look after the public interest, see that public charities were well supported.

I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.

I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.

I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.