Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

And I think after the history of this first term is written and you look back, you're going to see that compared to other administrations or by any other standard you'd want to apply, that it has been an extraordinarily clean, corruption-free administration because the President [Nixon] insists on that.

Some States just have a good political culture. It’s not all greed driven.

The country is yearning to put behind all these horrible things that have to do with corruption, state capture, behind us. The sooner these are all done, the better, because we want to move on; we want to move on to a better life.

Korea has a long way to go before ending corruption. But Mayor Goh has certainly taken an important step toward it.

I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take on the culture of corruption.

If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

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

A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.

My action against corruption has been well acclaimed by the people of Orissa.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.

The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.

Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.