Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

I hold everybody responsible for Mr. Lincoln's reelection, and I will countenance nothing else!

I am not asking to be Governor of Illinois ... I have in my composition that which I have declared to the world as my views upon religion. My position I would not, under any circumstances, not even for my life, seem to renounce. I would rather refuse to be President of the United States than to do so. My religious belief is my own. It belongs to me, not to the State of Illinois. I would not smother one sentiment of my heart to be the Emperor of the round world.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.