Sri Mulyani Indrawati Quotes

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment to those excluded from the appropriation.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of a good government.

The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

I'm a big fan of public trust.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country.

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

Sustainability is a very tough thing in our government because there are so many different competing priorities.

Dialoging is the first principle of good government.

States riddled with corruption are in no position to channel state spending to socially productive uses in an efficient manner.

Good governance is an important precondition for success of government but it is not sufficient. Economic growth is necessary.

You’re doing the people’s business and they have a right to know.

Our government cannot function cloaked in secrecy. It cannot function unless officials tell the truth.