Accountability Quotes

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

I'm a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.

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.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

I'm going to be involved with freedom; I'm going to be involved in the marketplace; I'm going to be involved in the accountability in schools.

There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

Each finger on your shooting hand is accountable to each shot. Just like each thought you think has some accountability to someone or somewhere.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

[Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

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.

Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities.

Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

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.

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.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.