Accountability Quotes - Page 3

The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day

I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.