quotes 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 StilleSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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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 -
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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 JahjagaSource : "Kosovar President Atifete Jahjaga: the Four Key Ingredients for Peace". thehill.com. June 14, 2012.
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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 -
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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 -
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It was accountability that Nixon feared.
-- Bob WoodwardSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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 -
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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 LevinSource : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business
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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 -
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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 GregoireSource : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.
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Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
-- Christine Lagarde -
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press
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No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
-- Dan MillerSource : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.51, Crown Business
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To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.
-- Dave Hunt -
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
-- David Brin -
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
-- David Brin -
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean AchesonSource : Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977
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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
-- Denis Waitley -
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
-- Diane RavitchSource : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.18, Basic Books
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'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Accountability only works if you want it to.
-- Dillon BurroughsSource : Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.5, Harvest House Publishers
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In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
-- Doc Hastings -
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
-- Eckhard Pfeiffer -
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.
-- Edward Higgins White -
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.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
-- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of YardleySource : "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.
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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.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti -
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.
-- Gifford Pinchot -
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
-- Glenn Reynolds -
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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
-- Gwen IfillSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.
-- Harriet Rubin -
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
-- Henry Cloud -
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.
-- Herbert SchillerSource : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
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Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.
-- Ilana Mercer -
The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.
-- Jack Kelly -
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.
-- Jane Jacobs -
I made the decision. I'm accountable.
-- Janet RenoSource : "Live From..." with Tony Harris, edition.cnn.com. March 21, 2005.
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For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.
-- Jay Baer -
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress
-- Jay RockefellerSource : "Democrats close Senate to push war probe". www.cnn.com. November 1, 2005.
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Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.
-- Jeremy Stoppelman -
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.
-- Jerry Junkins -
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It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
-- Jim Costa -
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.
-- Jim Cramer -
Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
-- Jim NussleSource : "Arena Profile: Jim Nussle". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 15, 2010.
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The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
-- Joe Baca -
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Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
-- John CornynSource : "Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.
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There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
-- John Miller -
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
-- John Newman -
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.
-- John Ricard -
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
-- John Stuart MillSource : John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
-- John ThuneSource : "Sen. John Thune on Legislation to Block Bailout of State Pension Plans". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2011.
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
-- Jonathan KozolSource : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.47, Hachette UK
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
-- Joseph Fort NewtonSource : Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
-- Judith Lewis HermanSource : Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books
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Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.
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Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
-- Kevin Powers -
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We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.
-- Kweisi MfumeSource : "NAACP to sue gun makers". www.cnn.com. July 12, 1999.
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Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.
-- Larry BurkettSource : Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls.
-- Leah Hager Cohen -
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
-- Lenny Wilkens -
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It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.
-- Marc Lamont Hill -
So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.
-- Mark Richt -
There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.
-- Meg Cabot -
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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.
-- Melissa Bean -
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.
-- Melissa Bean -
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.
-- Michael ParentiSource : Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books
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[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
-- Michael Pollan -
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Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.
-- Mike Bickle -
We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
-- Mike QuigleySource : "Reinventing the Federal Budget" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2010.
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I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
-- Mike QuigleySource : "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.
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No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.
-- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum -
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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.
-- Nathanael Emmons -
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
-- Nelson Mandela -
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.
-- Nick Clegg -
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.
-- Norman Finkelstein -
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What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
-- Paul Hawken -
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
-- Paul Tillich -
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
-- Paul Wellstone -