#officials

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. ↗

— John Lynch

#government #honest #integrity #keep #must

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#implementation #law #many #officials #outcome

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american public #between #catching #elected #elected officials

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#american people #budget #decisions #elected #elected officials

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#asthma #attack #attended #child #children

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#decades #had #journalistic #life #lives

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#citizens #elected #good #good citizens #officials

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor. ↗

— Bob Ney

#commissioners #county #deal #deserve #determine