Yoshihide Suga Quotes

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

I'm a big fan of public trust.

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 am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

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

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.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

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

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

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

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

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

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

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

We as citizens should hold our government accountable for word and deed.