Taylor Caldwell Quotes

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move or what will be the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. Quite honestly I am beginning to feel extremely sorry for him. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

it does not make any difference whether it were the Republican or Democratic Party. It is the business of the party in power to face the American Nation, stand responsible for the conduct of its administration, and to give the people of this Nation a prosecution in this case that will restore the confidence of the people not in the party in power merely, or any party, but in their Government, in the integrity of their public officials.

People always suffer for what governments have done.

We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders in the work of government.

At what point in time can our government fire someone whose gross negligence left four Americans dead in Benghazi?

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.