There are plenty of smart, good-government rules you can put in place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economy Watch: Is rest of Sarbanes-Oxley worth keeping?] Reference

Balancing the budget is a moral value, not simply a good-government piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2006] Reference

This case study has to do with that great love of good-government types, campaign finance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Cash Games] Reference

Often such task forces are dominated by the usual political insiders or good-government activists.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Canada, regular folks are put to work on reforms] Reference

It's Montgomery's hybrid political system and a good-government appeal that allowed this to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montgomery neighborhood could have a powerful grip on county council] Reference

Some good-government folks suspect there are no fewer lobbyists, just fewer lobbyists abiding the rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [K Street Research: 'Non-Lobbying Entity' Expands, Plots K Street Takeover] Reference

And good-government types are bummed because there was talk of a vote on an amendment to ban secret holds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why immigrant, GLBT and good-government groups were behind the defense bill] Reference

"There are certainly parts of the regulations that from a good-government standpoint need to be cleaned up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Family Leave Act Too Soft or Too Tough?] Reference

Self-government or, for that matter, good-government, can only result from active involvement and oversight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Wanted: Nov. 4 Election Verification Exit Poll] Reference

This is a kind of goo-goo, good-government editorialist kind of thing that all -- quote -- "earmarks are bad.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2007] Reference

And Patrick Murray seriously thinks this is going to play in liberal, good-government Arlington and Alexandria?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teams DeLay and Boehner Pulls Together for 8th CD Republican Nominee] Reference

A coalition of good-government organizations voiced support for the transition plan in a letter to the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bauer to assume ethics, transparency responsibilities] Reference

Of course, asking Bill Kristol to predict the future is like asking Rod Blagojevich to head a good-government task force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst Predictions of the Year] Reference

Several CSTC-A officers and Pentagon officials said that good-government contract rules prevent them from banning Blackwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Military Contractors Abetted By Broken System] Reference

(Other good-government groups, like Common Cause, have said they did not support the Assembly bill without the Sampson bill.).    From Wordnik.com.  [State Senate Does Nothing on Ethics Reform] Reference

When Democrats pushed through the independent counsel statute following Watergate, they presented it as a good-government measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazy Leahy] Reference

Send your complaints as well to the good-government types who pledge allegiance to the idea that money is the root of political evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reformers Who Ruined Politics] Reference

From the good-government group Public Citizen -- the voting records of Murtha during this current congressional session shows that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Jim Moran Claims 128-94 Whip Count In Murtha's Favor] Reference

But good-government groups are troubled by the unregulated big money pouring into the Senate race, through a thousand different rivulets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary-Hating Group Amasses Big Warchest for Senate Campaign] Reference

As mayor of San Diego he was an early proponent of good-government uplift: campaign-spending limits, environmental controls, urban planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding The Wave] Reference

Three days after South Carolina comes Michigan, another "open" primary where McCain is close in the polls and needs good-government votes to win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dixie Donnybrook] Reference

The bill is not on the agenda for this special session, however, though the good-government groups hope a vote will happen as quickly as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legislators Negotiating New Ethics Bill, Raising Hopes for a 'Kumbaya Moment'] Reference

He was the good-government, process-obsessed reformer -- until he wanted to raise countless millions of dollars outside the campaign-finance system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ignorance factor: Obama, religion and the media] Reference

Murtha has brought billions of dollars of bacon back to his Johnstown constituency and become a hate-figure for reform-minded good-government types.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Anyway, good-government bulldog group Public Citizen has launched a new microsite tracking the coming administration, titled, of course, "Becoming 44.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: On Networked Campaigns and Post-Party Politics] Reference

"It's tragicomic," says Elina Rossi, a Tres de Febrero councilwoman for the Civic Coalition, a minority center-left party with a good-government platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Argentine Election, a Peronist Is Trying to Deliver a Knockout Punch] Reference

Former colleagues generally held him in high regard as a policy-focused good-government type, though he was said to clash with others close to the governor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Francis, Top Aide to Paterson and Spitzer, Resigns] Reference

The measure is supported by a wide-range of treatment professionals, good-government types and former high-ranking corrections and law enforcement officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Abrahamson: Jerry's Brown-Nosin' with California's Prison Guards] Reference

Every now and again, some good-government editorial writer will issue forth a statement bemoaning the corrosive effect of public cynicism on the body politic, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time to Tee Off On Cynical Pols] Reference

It has been enough to make some of the capital's most unimpeachable good-government advocates seem downright unappreciative of Albany's freshly untrammeled democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albany Amok: Whose Bailout Is This, Anyway?] Reference

Even if it accurate to blame McCain for preventing these nominations from coming to a vote -- a dubious proposition -- it confirms only McCain's good-government streak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Kendall: Fearing the McCain Supreme Court] Reference

Obama does have an astounding eloquence, and an ability to put a position across, but that eloquence has been reserved largely for anti-war and good-government positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Who Broke "Small Town" Story Says Obama Campaign's Response Was "Classy"] Reference

The good-government types of the 1980s produced a fairer tax code by wiping out subsidies paid to dozens of special interests, and used the savings to fund lower tax rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illusion Of Tax Relief] Reference

In April, good-government watchdog Public Citizen asked the 47 retiring members of the House and Senate to sign a pledge promising they would never become influence peddlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill To Ban Members Of Congress From Becoming Lobbyists Wins Cosponsor In Senate] Reference