Accountability Quotes

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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.

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

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

'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.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

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.

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.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

Never promise more than you can perform.

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

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.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

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.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

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

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.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

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

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

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.

I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.