Bill Flores Quotes

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

The state of affairs in our nation's capital is a national disgrace. It is an international embarrassment and dishonors the name of our first president, George Washington.

Year after year we do not get reform as a result of scandals; we simply get more scandals.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

The American people expect their government to manage their hard-earned tax dollars responsibly.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Benghazi is important because it demonstrates all that is wrong in Washington.

What matters is that the majority of American people have become complacent in a senseless injustice that occurs all around them. What matters is that most American politicians have become more easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office.

I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

For the people who are offended about the fact that we have a bunch of criminals and criminal enablers and buffoons and scheisters and con men and frauds and real estate frauds running our country and our government, they like to hear that they're not the only ones that feel that way.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my camera, my pen, my pad, and my network to do my part, to make sure that Americans will no longer fear their government. Or its employees. They work for us - not the other way around.