Jon Kyl Quotes

But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

Bruce Rauner needs to lead, and until he does, we must fight to hold him accountable.

As a legislator, I was elected to make the tough decisions and produce solutions to the problems facing our country.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.

I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.

It's extremely important that we elect people that look like the population they serve.

I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

We've had enough career politicians in Helena who think the people are here to serve them. It's supposed to be the other way around.

My grandfather... always used to say - I remember it really well - that he was proud to be a politician. He wanted to redeem that word.