Public purpose and responsibility
- Public office as stewardship
- Public trust and legitimacy
- Accountability for decisions
- Impartial decision-making
- Objectivity in public decisions
- Commitment to public welfare
- Empathy in public service
- Procedural fairness
- Fair distribution of public benefits
- Non-partisanship in public service
- Tolerance of difference
- Compassion as concern and readiness to help
- Responsiveness to disadvantaged people
- Probity in the exercise of entrusted public power