Accountability Quotes - Page 4

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

Anger alone is not going to be enough. You deserve a nominee who tells you exactly, "Here's what we're going to do," and outlines that. So you know what you're getting. So there's some level of accountability here. So my campaign is about this. We are very realistic about our challenges right now in this country.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

I made the decision. I'm accountable.