Vladimir Putin Quotes

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

Tolerance of corruption, explicit and implicit, has made it impossible to govern…. We need absolute transparency of all the assets of government officials.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside [for] corruption thrives in secret places [and] it [is] a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

You can't run a government that is leaking all over the place.

People in power tend to be not as enthusiastic about open records as they were before they came to power.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside.... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

Secrecy in government, in the public mind, becomes synonymous with deception in government.

As long as government exists, corruption will exist. It is an illness of government and can only be cured by the people.

Had the investigation been left to the government, the current administration would have concealed its own mistakes and blamed its predecessors, That is not a criticism of the Bush White House. Any administration would do the same.

Sometimes I think that before we set up war crimes tribunals we should set up Corruption Inquiries and Commissions as corruption always is present in these states.

There will be scandals. There will be scandals. And then maybe we can reform again.

Why is there so much resistance among people who work in the Government to the seemingly obvious fact that, in our democracy, if the Government lies, it will eventually get caught

Louisiana showed up at the top of a study of political corruption that calculated the number of convictions per capita. Georgia came out as worst on a corruption risk report from the State Integrity Investigation, which measured factors like accountability, transparency and ethics enforcement.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

I've been concerned about ethics in government for a long time. And the problems we've had under President Trump are only indicative of the longer-term problem of the erosion of public office and government.

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.