Maxine Waters Quotes

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Good government

I have been in public office and have been criticized. I do not object to it. A public official should be willing to be criticized. An agent of the people of this country should be called to account.

If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

As Public Advocate for the City of New York, I have a duty to speak truth to power and do what is best for our City and its residents.

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't, then they should be challenged and held to account.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It always matters whether or not you can trust your government.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Duties and rights are reciprocal