Han Fei Quotes

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

Trust: Our system of government does not function without it.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

All persons who take part in government are accountable for their actions.

Political checks will no more act of themselves than a bridle will direct a horse without a rider. If the checking functionaries are as corrupt or as negligent as those whom they ought to check, and if the public, the mainspring of the whole checking machinery, are too ignorant, too passive, or too careless and inattentive, to do their part, little benefit will be derived from the best administrative apparatus. Yet a good apparatus is always preferable to a bad.

Counter-corruption agencies cannot make a difference unless they are independent of the government actors they are supposed to monitor, restrain, and punish.

Good government

Parties are means for good government and not its ends.

Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

Instead of channeling Trump, and attacking the courts in ways that are as bad as or worse than the president's, public officials who ought to know better should behave better.

Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused.

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.

2016 is the year of eliminating corruption.

As candidates and elected officials, we have an obligation to be honest.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.