Bob Ainsworth Quotes

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

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

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.

Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.

We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political will, determination and imagination. Providing health care for all of our citizens requires the same force of will.

I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.

I don't have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party's manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

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

I’d love to say that politicians who lie should be indicted, but lying except under oath is not a crime—it’s a moral crime however.

We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.

People have said, You've turned your back on pediatrics. I said, No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.

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.

If we Republicans celebrate that we have repealed Obamacare, and health insurance premiums keep going up, the voters will tar and feather us, and rightly so.

If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.

Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.

The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.