Arsene Wenger Quotes

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

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.

When you establish a powerful position, the first think you have to do is check that power and make it accountable.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Boards are screens. What “the Board” does is the act of nobody; and nobody can be made to answer for it.

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

With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

Political leaders, elected by the public and vested with the power to shape public life, owe it to citizens to set better standards regarding their use of money, and their conduct, both in and out of office.

The best system is the most accountable and transparent system

I have been in public office and have been criticized. I do not object to it. A public official should be willing to be criticized. An agent of the people of this country should be called to account.