Laura Miller Quotes

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

I hope when I am governor and it's all over, I am a governor who underpromised and overdelivered.

When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

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

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Let us change the image of Alabama by changing the image of its officeholders.

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

Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.

New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

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.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.