"What China lacks is not money but rather clean government, " said lawmaker Claudia Mo.
Between them, the prosecutor and the press may make a contribution to clean government.
Mr Ikeda took over the leadership in 1960 and soon formed the Komeito (Clean Government Party).
The indictment accuses him, therefore, of breaking the constitution's guidelines on clean government.
"I will give the people a clean government, " the former foreign minister said.
Even its relatively doctrinaire Prosperous Justice Party, which tripled its share of the vote, emphasised clean government, not Islam.
Brazil's first working-class president, a favorite with Brazil's poorer voters, promised clean government and a fairer distribution of wealth.
He promised clean government, presided over a corruption scandal, and yet still looks capable of winning a second chance.
PT, a party that claimed to hold a copyright on clean government, is mixed up in a veritable Kama Sutra of corruption.
So Ms Martinez, so far, has simply tried to represent clean government.
On the night of the election, preparing to step into her new role, Nancy Pelosi spoke about the role of clean government.
But Ms Rousseff needs to make a clear commitment to clean government.
Lula and his party not only stood for social reform but claimed, from their experience in local administration, a monopoly on clean government in Brazil.
Another challenge, in his dealings both with sceptical Europeans and his own voters, is to honour his claim to be giving Turkey its first clean government.
Come next April, the deep-pocketed Soka Gakkai group which owns them intends to merge all three Buddhist-affiliated parties that splintered from the former Komeito (Clean Government Party) in 1994.
It also offers much circumstantial evidence that once in power, the Workers' Party, the avatar of clean government, began to finance itself and to buy its allies' loyalty by systematically skimming money from state companies.
As academic evidence mounts that graft deters investment and economic growth, aid agencies tie their largesse more directly to clean government, and citizens from Argentina to Indonesia demand less venal politicians, no country can afford to ignore its reputation for corruption.
"The more the better, " he says, because each poll provides another opportunity to clean up government.
Without them, efforts to clean up government must work within the existing legal framework.
And that kind of dealmaking is likely to run counter to his mandate to clean up government.
Technology offers an opening, too, to outfits such as Lok Satta, a clean-government campaign run by a formidable, Economist-wielding doctor called J.
During Sharif's barnstorming election campaign he promised to clean up government.
In one season an opposition party, or younger African politician, vows to clean up government and root out the graft that helps to keep the continent poor.
They have taken up Mr. Kim's crusade to clean up government, end special favors to big business, and bring unprecedented transparency to the conduct of politics and finance.
It scores well in business-friendliness and clean-government rankings.
Given the weight of the opposition's gains, which also include a bigger presence in state assemblies, there are already those in the National Front coalition who argue that without real efforts to clean up government and create a more equitable society, the next election will be lost.
The development literature emphasises the importance of sound institutions and clean, effective government.
To clean up our government, you have to do two things.
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Second, the reality that BP had no contingency plan for a catastrophic blowout. but will nevertheless be partially rescued by government clean-up operations and court limits on plaintiff settlements.
If a country must have high taxes and lots of social spending, then the Danish model of clean and transparent government is the only way to make that model work.
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