John Fleming Quotes

We as citizens should hold our government accountable for word and deed.

Your public servants serve you right.

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.

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

If elected president, it will be my solemn duty to always hold myself accountable to the American people. They deserve nothing less.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

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.

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.

I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect.

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.

The trust that goes with public service is a heavy burden on those who would lead us.

If experience teaches us anything it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

There are certain things, when you get into public office, that you just should not do.

You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people, and it's not for sale.

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

You are not electing your parliamentarian or your MP to the corridors of power. You are electing them to the corridors of responsibility.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.