Quotes and Sayings About Accountability
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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.
-- Adrian Cadbury -
Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
-- Alexander Stille -
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
-- Amy Goodman -
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
-- Anita Brookner -
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
-- Archibald Alexander -
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
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
-- Barbara Boxer -
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.
-- Bell Hooks -
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
-- Ben Marcus -
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.
-- Bob Irwin -
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
-- Bob Woodward -
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated
-- Brad Stevens -
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
-- Bruce Sterling -
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
-- Campbell Newman -
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
-- Carl Levin -
I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.
-- Carly Fiorina -
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.
-- Cesar Chavez -
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
-- Charles de Lint -
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
-- Charles J. Hitch -
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.
-- Chris Hayes -
If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.
-- Christine Gregoire -
Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
-- Christine Lagarde -
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
-- Claude McKay -
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
-- Dan Miller