Carrie Lam Quotes

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt, but I understand that Senator Mitchell's report has raised many serious questions. I plan to publicly answer all of those questions at the appropriate time in the appropriate way. I only ask that in the meantime people not rush to judgment.

Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

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

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

Democracy requires that those who bear the consequences of decisions have enough knowledge to hold the decision-makers accountable.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done

The great secrecy is speedy justice.

Justice must be seen to be done.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.

The British public cannot be treated like fools.

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?