Charles Edison Quotes

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver.

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

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.

There are certain things, when you get into public office, that you just should not do.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

Political leaders, elected by the public and vested with the power to shape public life, owe it to citizens to set better standards regarding their use of money, and their conduct, both in and out of office.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.

Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.

I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

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

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

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.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.