Dixie Lee Ray Quotes

I also think it's important for us to hold our elected officials accountable and part of how you do that is simple, call them and let them know when you agree or disagree with what their decisions are and suggest how they should come out on certain legislation that important to you.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

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.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Public agencies should be criticized.

You cannot make elected officials … do what they will not do.

Democracy requires that those who bear the consequences of decisions have enough knowledge to hold the decision-makers accountable.

I am not on trial here, Mr. Chairman. This committee is on trial here before the American people. Let us get that straight.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.

We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people.

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't, then they should be challenged and held to account.

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

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

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

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

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.