Greg Walden Quotes

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

We all make mistakes. In public life, we make them in public view.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

I'm a big proponent of accountability.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

In the tough and dangerous world in which we live a President must always say what he means and mean what he says.

You never say what you're not going to do.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.

A politician can never escape his past; he can transcend his past.

The job of the politician isn’t to tell you what you want to hear, but to tell you what needs to be done.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

Never point a rifle at anyone unless you’re willing to pull the trigger. If we say something is unacceptable to us, that means we can never accept it.

Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.