Ami Bera Quotes

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.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

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 value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.