Darren Remington Quotes

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

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

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

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.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

Governments are not normally concerned with the welfare of the people they govern.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of Government should be not only tolerated but encouraged.

We don’t even realize that we do not know who is running our country.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.

I think everybody in Washington could use a curfew, to be honest.

We must keep the pressure on Congress to curb Obama's continued abuse of power. We must always expose that abuse to fellow citizens.

We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

In times of crisis, we are made to feel we should scrutinise our government's actions less closely, when surely that's when we should pay closest attention.

I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.