Constituents Quote by James Madison

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

— Bob Etheridge

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

— Harry S. Truman

I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.

— Bill Kristol

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a…

— Noah Webster

The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes.

— Suella Braverman

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the…

— Anonymous

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word.…

— Bob Graham

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

— Benjamin Franklin

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust…

— Richard M. Nixon

Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in…

— Yoko Ono

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or…

— Donald J. Boudreaux