John Danforth Quotes on Government (6 Quotes)

It's time to start the clock ticking on the government of Sudan.

we have stated for a long time that the African Union is the key to this and that getting the African Union actually on the ground in Darfur is crucially important -- whether this will be actually facilitated in practice by the Government of Sudan remains to be seen.

We were all set to get a U.S. government plane, ... fly Bashir and Garang to Washington for the State of the Union and claim the success of the Naivasha peace talks -- that was nine months ago, there is no reason why this is dragging on.

Although the government did nothing evil on April 19, 1993, the failure of some of its employees to fully and openly disclose to the American people the use of pyrotechnic devices undermined public confidence in government and caused real damage to our country,

The subtext of Danforth's report was that if the Waco episode had any valuable lesson, it was that government should come clean about what it knows. When federal authorities refused to admit early on that three pyrotechnic rounds had been fired at the Mount Carmel compound, it tainted their credibility. We want them to learn from this experience the importance of candor, even about very small things, ... Yet government officials were not open enough then They weren't candid enough, they didn't tell, they knew things and they didn't disclose those things, and the result of that is that those who want to believe the worst about government say, 'Aha, this is something that is really bad.' And if government lies about one thing, it will lie about everything, so everything is suspicious. I think the lesson is that government has to be open.

we're wondering if the government of Sudan is just using more words, more promises with a view that delay means more death.