Lara Giddings Quotes

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

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Who will observe the observers?

Public officers are the trustees of the people.

Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

Who watches the watchmen?

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

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.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

Counter-corruption agencies cannot make a difference unless they are independent of the government actors they are supposed to monitor, restrain, and punish.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.