Luther Strange Quotes

I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

The Attorney General's ultimate client must be the people of the United States

Honorariums are really dishonorariums. So long as they continue, public trust in Congress will sink even below its minimal level today.... Public officials should have only one paymaster: the Government. When the Government pays too little, the temptation to find other paymasters becomes far harder to resist.

There's no way you can depend on the Attorney General of the United States to investigate high government officials.

Neither ethical lapses nor public corruption are commonplace, let alone tolerated..

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

And my whole life I've been focused on questions of anti-corruption laws, on constitutional law, and it's essential that the power of this office be maximized to stop corruption at the national level.

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers' only interest is what's best for the country, not their own financial gain.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!