Accountability Quotes - Page 2

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.

But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable

We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.