Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

Victor Ponta Quotes