Shaun King Quotes

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!

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.

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.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

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

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

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

Our expectations of our leaders are too high—in what they can do to effect our day-to-day lives.

All persons who take part in government are accountable for their actions.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

We are hiring too many people who are called politicians, and we are not holding them accountable…. You do not hire someone and not tell them what to do. Make a trip to Washington and see that they are doing what you want them to do.

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

I have been in public office and have been criticized. I do not object to it. A public official should be willing to be criticized. An agent of the people of this country should be called to account.

Transparency is the hallmark of Prime Minister Modi's government.