Margaret Chan Quotes

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

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

it does not make any difference whether it were the Republican or Democratic Party. It is the business of the party in power to face the American Nation, stand responsible for the conduct of its administration, and to give the people of this Nation a prosecution in this case that will restore the confidence of the people not in the party in power merely, or any party, but in their Government, in the integrity of their public officials.

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.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

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

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

We want the government of this country to realize that it has customers and that it has to be customer friendly.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

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.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

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

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.