Victor Ponta Quotes

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

A country is not managed through cousins and confidants.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

Naidu boasts of governance but does not understand what governance means.

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.

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.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector.

Armed with purity of intentions and firmness of purpose, I may reasonably entertain the hope of being able to clear the administrative agency of all corruption and incompetency, and impart to it the maximum of honesty and efficiency. I now warn my officials of all ranks that I have fully made up my mind to put down corruption and intrigue wherever they may be found.

Without efforts to modernize legal institutions, new international agreements will remain unrealized and our democracies will continue to be threatened by our inability to track corruption and other criminal activities.

It’s not one thing that eliminates corruption. It requires a number of factors: Education, institutions, accountability … It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.

Pubic business must be done. It will be done one way or another. If wise men refuse it, others will not. If honest men refuse it, others will not.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right.

The anticorruption campaign has created a lot of resentment and disincentives among public officials. Political discipline is to repress that resentment and to recreate an incentive for public service.

We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.

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.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

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