Accountability famous quotes

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

#Goal #Accountability #Balance

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
-- Alexander Stille

#Justice #Accountability #Modern

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Mother #Motherhood #Accountability

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

#Government #Media #Accountability

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
-- Anita Brookner

#Love #Friendship #Accountability

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

#Men #Accountability #Morality

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

#Law #Accountability #Abuse

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

#Fighting #People #Accountability

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

#Responsibility #Thinking #Accountability

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
-- Ben Marcus

#Kids #Parent #Accountability

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Thinking #Accountability #Where You Are

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

#Believe #Accountability #World

It was accountability that Nixon feared.
-- Bob Woodward

#Accountability #Literature

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
-- Bob Woodward

#Government #Accountability #Done

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated
-- Brad Stevens

#Basketball #Accountability #Culture

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
-- Bruce Sterling

#Accountability #Four #Honest

The taxpayers deserve accountability.
-- Byron Dorgan

#Accountability #Taxpayers #Deserve

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

#Simple #Accountability #Political

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
-- Campbell Newman

#Accountability #Political #Lines

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

#Responsibility #Aquariums #Accountability

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

#Accomplishment #Accountability #World

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

#Honesty #Men #Accountability

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.
-- Champ Bailey

#Mean #Accountability

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

#Choices #Accountability

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
-- Charles J. Hitch

#Accountability #Generations #Matter

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

#Powerful #America #Accountability

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

#Accountability #Unity #Want

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

#Inspiring #Mean #Accountability

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
-- Claude McKay

#Men #Accountability #Faithful

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
-- Dan Miller

#Motivational #Goal #Accountability

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

#Atheist #Escaping #Accountability

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

#People #Accountability #Literature

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
-- David Brin

#Errors #Accountability #Criticism

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

#Funny #Accountability #Political

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
-- Denis Waitley

#Accountability #Life Is

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
-- Diane Ravitch

#Goal #Accountability

'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

#Children #School #Accountability

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

#Nature #Children #Accountability

Accountability only works if you want it to.
-- Dillon Burroughs

#Accountability #Want

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

#Agency #Accountability #Suffering

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Hunting #Accountability #Blame

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
-- Eckhard Pfeiffer

#Educational #Accountability #Needs

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

#Dog #Track #Accountability

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

#Real #Choices #Accountability

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 Yardley

#Responsibility #Accountability #Film

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

#Accountability #Vision #Done

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

#Reality #Accountability #Possibility

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

#Accountability #Politics #Concerned

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 Ifill

#Real #Years #Accountability

Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.
-- Harriet Rubin

#People #Accountability #Hell

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

#Attitude #Expectations #Accountability

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

#Mean #Accountability #Deregulation

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.
-- Ilana Mercer

#Government #Accountability

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

#Government #Accountability #Groups

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

#Government #People #Accountability

I made the decision. I'm accountable.
-- Janet Reno

#Decision #Accountability #Made

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

#Media #Accountability #Marketing

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress
-- Jay Rockefeller

#People #Accountability #Branches

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

#Hands #Accountability #Upset

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.
-- Jerry Junkins

#Responsibility #Organization #Accountability

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

#Party #Land #Accountability

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

#People #Accountability #Wealth

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 Nussle

#Government #People #Accountability

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

#Accountability #Needs #Tools

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 Cornyn

#Accountability #Political #Independence

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
-- John Miller

#Business #Accountability #Full Potential

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

#Men #Accountability #Liberty

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

#Country #People #Accountability

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 Mill

#Life #Evil #Accountability

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
-- John Stuart Mill

#Accountability #Action #Individual

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
-- John Thune

#Inspirational #Thinking #Accountability

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 Kozol

#School #People #Accountability

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 Newton

#Accountability #Debt #Lasts

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 Herman

#Order #Accountability #Silence

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

#Issues #Accountability #Care

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
-- Kevin Powers

#Accountability

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

#Responsibility #Practice #Accountability

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.
-- Larry Burkett

#Accountability #Our Society #Authority

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

#Healing #Ignorance #Accountability

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

#Sports #Player #Accountability

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

#Spiritual #Responsibility #Accountability

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.
-- Marc Lamont Hill

#Mean #Accountability #Surveillance

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

#Accountability #Kind #Lord

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

#People #Accountability #Faults

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

#Simple #Accountability #Want

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

#Responsibility #Accountability #Demand

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

#Government #Leader #Accountability

[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

#Government #Accountability #Regulation

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

#Responsibility #Accountability #Grace

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

#Accountability #Needs #Transparency

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
-- Mike Quigley

#Government #Accountability #Bills

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.
-- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#Law #Accountability #Above The Law

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

#Men #Design #Accountability

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

#Law #Accountability #Humanity

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

#Support #Accountability #Freedom Of Speech

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

#Success #Israel #Accountability

A local company has more accountability.
-- Paul Hawken

#Accountability #Company

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
-- Paul Hawken

#Government #Missing #Accountability

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
-- Paul Tillich

#Destiny #Men #Accountability

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

#Practice #Accountability #Credit