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Accountability breeds response-ability. -- Stephen Covey
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. -- Anita Brookner
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. -- Carl Levin
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. -- David Brin
The taxpayers deserve accountability. -- Byron Dorgan
Accountability doesn't mean apologizing. -- Nate Silver
It was accountability that Nixon feared. -- Bob Woodward
Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus
Accountability only works if you want it to. -- Dillon Burroughs
Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result. -- Bob Proctor
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 Ravitch
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. -- Paul Hawken
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only." -- Jemima Khan
We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. -- Richard Lugar
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government. -- Bob Woodward
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. -- Thomas Paine
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership. -- Rick Warren
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
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
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
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. -- Ruben Hinojosa
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire. -- Jennifer Granholm
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
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
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]. -- Marion Nestle
We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again. -- William P. Leahy
Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. -- John Hickenlooper
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don't keep the marketplace honest. -- Elizabeth Warren
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
Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders. -- Stephen Harper
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
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis. -- Bernie Sanders
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. -- Robert Teeter
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again. -- Pat Summitt
I just think we need more accountability and more transparency. -- John Thune
No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. -- Simon Mainwaring
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. -- Craig Ferguson
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions. -- Kenneth Chenault
If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy. -- John Gerzema
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
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting. -- Matt Mullenweg
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life. -- Ai Weiwei
Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty. -- Noreena Hertz
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. -- Michelle Malkin
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. -- Louise Slaughter
A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. -- Doug LaMalfa
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that. -- Brie Larson
You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system. -- Eric Ries
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. -- Alan Dershowitz
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
If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word. -- Brett Hoebel
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability. -- Glenn Greenwald
I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance. -- Jane Siberry
Secrecy destroys accountability. -- Ralph Nader
The accountability rests with me. -- Skip Prosser
If kindness wins, accountability rules. -- Galit Breen
TRUST RESULTS FROM MERIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. -- Ambrose Bierce
A local company has more accountability. -- Paul Hawken
I'm a big proponent of accountability. -- Jonathan Klein
Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability. -- David D. Burns
One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability. -- Tom Price
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. -- Don DeLillo
There is no accountability in soft money. None. -- Zach Wamp
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. -- Yousef Munayyer
Government commissions are where accountability goes to die. -- Ilana Mercer
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability. -- Kevin Powers
When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization. -- Marc Lamont Hill
Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust. -- Ron Garan
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability. -- Wes Fesler
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law. -- Heather Brooke
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. -- Imran Khan
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. -- David Brin
Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability. -- Rush Limbaugh
Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp. -- Kellyanne Conway
There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas. -- Michael Bloomberg
Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military. -- Phil Klay
The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments. -- Mary Robinson
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. -- Vaclav Klaus
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. -- Jack Nicholson
On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom. -- Jean Hamilton-Fford
I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me. -- Stephen Baldwin
It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done. -- Sonny Landham
An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability. -- Joan D. Chittister
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. -- Alan Dershowitz
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. -- Thomas Jefferson
Holiness through Christ's Spirit is the accountability every Christian should be striving towards. -- Monica Johnson
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated -- Brad Stevens
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions. -- Dan Miller
A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability. -- Doug Berry
I am helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. -- Osama bin Laden
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. -- Winston Churchill
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations. -- Kent Beck
The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day -- Leonard Ravenhill
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general. -- Glenn Reynolds
It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it. -- Grant-Lee Phillips
You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious -- Paul R. Niven
Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever. -- Roxane Gay
The traditional managerial mind-set is an analytical mind-set. It is about creating accountability and defining responsibilities. -- John Kao
Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late -- Christine Lagarde
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public. -- Herbert Schiller
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. -- Larry Burkett
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. -- Cornel West
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability. -- Lawrence Bossidy
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. -- Carly Fiorina
Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them. -- Bruce Sterling
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. -- Nancy Pelosi
I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states. -- Paul Ryan
I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability. -- Campbell Newman
Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do. -- Mike Bickle
I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do. -- Charlie Crist
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. -- Ben Marcus

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