Valerie Plame Quotes

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Civil servants who tell the truth are fired and those who are incompetent are retained.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.

One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

We're here to put an end to the policy of official impunity.

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

One person can root out corruption and abuse of power. Once he understands this, he is redeemed and can break out of the trap of fear, and break free into the light of integrity and justice. This is the effect of seeing a brave whistleblower stand up and win; it inspires the rest of us.

We are attacking corruption and every corrupt person—no matter how important he is—will go to jail.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.