Accountability to Constituents Quotes

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

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment.

A senator should be held to a higher standard than Joe Six-Pack.

Toronto deserves Rob Ford; they put him in office. Toronto deserves everything it gets.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

When someone has to go back and work for a living under laws that they passed, they'd be more careful.

Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

I have an obligation to the people of Illinois, to the Senate and to myself to leave the Senate while I am still eager to serve, not after I tire of serving.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

People should not be paid to go to Washington and not do their job. When they don't show up, why should we pay them?