Edmund Burke Quotes

The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

The President is accountable only to the country.

When things don't go well they like to blame the Presidents, and that is one of the things that President's are paid for.

The citizens of any particular country must be assigned the primary responsibility for judging their own leaders. The potential for abuse is simply too great, when judges wander across national borders.

Politicians can’t just point to problems. They need to propose solutions.

The public, by and large, trusts its leaders not only to tell the truth, but to get the job done. When they don’t get the job done, they get punished, and when they don’t get the job done and it comes out that they lied, they’re in really serious trouble. This is what happened to [Lyndon] Johnson and it’s what happened to [George W,] Bush. If you’re going to tell a lie, make sure the policy works out.

Rulers of rentier states do not financially depend on taxation; therefore, the people cannot use taxation as leverage to make rulers accountable. In contrast, people in rentier states are dependent on governmental allocation of rentier revenue, which creates a patron–client relationship as well as a lack of independent political, economic, and civil society.

My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

The way Bhagwant Mann was reprimanded by Kejriwal at the time of his being made state president - with the condition that if he's found drinking he will be removed from the party's top post, and later Mann saying that he will step down if caught drinking - was not the right way of saying things.

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can, in real time, produce something that holds people accountable. That's an exciting time to be living in.

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation will go to war remain safely behind. The next time leaders talk of warring, all the people should get together and send those leaders to the front lines. Give them a big arena with wonderfully effective ammunition, and the war will be finished in a day

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.