Abigail Adams Quotes

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.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

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.

If you're a public official, your life is an open book.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service.

When we like our new rulers we call them public servants. When we are mad at them we call them bureaucrats; but it is the business of self-government to see that they remain servants of the public instead of becoming its masters.

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.

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 pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

We are vested with significant authorities, and it is our obligation as public servants to ensure that these authorities are exercised with objectivity and integrity. Anything less falls short of the FBI's duty to the American people.

The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

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.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

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.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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