An honest, capable and representative government is what ordinary Egyptians seek and what they deserve.
Predictably, opinion polls show the police are widely mistrusted.Experts say Thailand's force is not the world's worst: it does have some honest, capable investigators.
And, while there are plenty of honest, capable people in finance, the ease with which investors looked past Wall Street's failings seems like a classic case of what the social psychologist Leon Festinger called "cognitive dissonance".
When Alan Hevesi was elected state comptroller, in 2003, he was widely thought to be an honest and capable official.
He said that a majority of the agency's 1,700 employees were honest and capable, but that "a few bad apples" remained.
So that person was first to see Mr. Black's assessment of Luce as "a sincere patriot and Christian, an honest and capable businessman, and a strange phenomenon".
With judicious affection, he captures the contradictory character of Victoria, at once "almost painfully honest and capable of the most devious machinations, prudish and tolerant, hardheaded and sentimental".
"Much of the level of corruption that threatens any real hope of victory in Afghanistan can be reduced and eliminated if the U.S., its allies, and other donors tightly control the influx of outside money, limit its flow to honest and capable Afghans at every level of government, and provide the transparency to allow Afghans to see how honestly and effectively the money is used," he wrote.
School boards across the country seek wise, good, honest, and capable people to serve in this outsized job.
After it launches this summer, Project PM will be that very thing: a means of obtaining the best possible information as determined by the most honest and capable of journalists and commentators.
Speaking early Saturday at the official welcoming ceremony in Mexico's 17th-century National Palace, with President Enrique Peña Nieto, the Cabinet and an array of politicians as his audience, the pope spoke of the need for "men and women who are upright, honest and capable of working for the common good" to build a future of hope in a land of despair.
