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  • I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

    Source: time.com
  • I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

    Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage
  • 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 Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books
  • Design and the urgency to preserve it - not as a museum relic, as a living experience. And for me, something that lives alongside mass-produced goods. I'm not saying get away from it. My battle is there is a marketplace for what people wear and what they eat and care about how things are made and not just that they were made, and that's the core focus. I know where things come from, I know their families. I do that throughout my life - I know who makes my suits, and I know where my eggs come from. Everyone and everything is accounted for and has accountability.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • ...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

    Liars   People   Leader  
  • I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.

    Country   Mean   Thinking  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image, a convergence, as the not-for-profit sector is beginning to serve more effectively by applying private sector accountability and efficiencies to social needs. This reflects a rising recognition that to serve others best requires more than good intentions; it mandates a focus on real-world results. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the most conspicuous advocates and representatives of this transformation.

  • A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

    Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

    Source: www.thenation.com
  • In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  • There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

    James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.63, Crown Business
  • The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

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

  • Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  • Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

  • A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

  • The accountability rests with me.

  • The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  • Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”
  • It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  • In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups.

  • You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without accountability, there can be no freedom. I know it seems like a paradox.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.

    Country   Jobs   Thinking  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

    Ronald Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968.
  • Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

  • We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.

    Teacher   Children   Two  
    "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.
  • The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.

    Suicide   Goal   People  
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