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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. -- Samuel Richardson
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. -- Monica Crowley
People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21. -- Robbie Williams
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities. -- Samantha Power
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. -- Henry Giroux
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. -- Horace Mann
We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. -- Neal Barnard
Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! -- David Pratt
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
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss. -- Martha Beck
I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable. -- Angelina Jolie
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. -- Barack Obama
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 political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make. -- Patrick Murphy
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? -- bell hooks
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. -- Yochai Benkler
Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. -- Pratibha Patil
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable. -- Eugene Jarecki
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience. -- Lester Holt
Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses. -- Amy Jo Martin
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. -- James L. Buckley
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! -- W. Edwards Deming
I hold head coaches accountable. -- Roger Goodell
Computers are not accountable. People are. -- George Richard Marek
I made the decision. I'm accountable. -- Janet Reno
Good men prefer to be accountable. -- Michael Edwardes
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. -- Caroline Myss
Always be accountable. Forgive and let go. -- Claudia Black
No one is accountable anymore for anything. -- Craig T. Nelson
Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff. -- Ice T
Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable! -- Andy Stanley
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? -- Catharine MacKinnon
I am lord of myself, accountable to none. -- Benjamin Franklin
Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable. -- Umar
It means a lot. It means I'm accountable. -- Champ Bailey
If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything? -- Michael Gerber
I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable. -- Tony Blair
The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. -- Paul Weyrich
At least the politicians are accountable to the voters. -- Jesse Jackson
We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam". -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I must be responsible and accountable for my actions. -- Jason Williams
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience. -- Wes Fesler
A man is accountable to no person for his doings. -- James Otis
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
A true friend holds you accountable to your best self. -- Mike Glenn
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? -- Franz Wright
Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable. -- Peter Cosgrove
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. -- Patrick Lencioni
Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp. -- Kellyanne Conway
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. -- Steve Ballmer
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. -- Denis Waitley
We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have. -- Julianne Malveaux
Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. Â? -- Marv Dunphy
All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise. -- Benjamin Disraeli
You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods. -- Stephen Covey
Everybody who was involved in that culture [Wells Fargo] should be held accountable. -- John Kasich
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. -- Elie Wiesel
We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services. -- Margaret Chan
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable -- Jason Kidd
I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable. -- Hunter Parrish
A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself -- Iyanla Vanzant
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. -- John Oldham
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. -- John Prescott
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. -- Bill Bradley
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable -- Joe Dumars
Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ. -- Monica Johnson
If you're not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn't count. -- R. C. Sproul
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. -- Mildred Newman
Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable. -- Charles Schumer
Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions. -- Russ Feingold
I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. -- Willa Cather
You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable. -- Darryl White
Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable. -- Carly Fiorina
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing. -- Cornelia Parker
... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason ... -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong? -- Pat Summitt
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? -- Michael Ignatieff
I think part of the problem is the education system doesn't work - it's not accountable. -- Luis Guzman
The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise. -- Norm MacDonald
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds. -- Victor Hugo
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers. -- Ed Miliband
To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. -- Mitch Caplan
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. -- Thomas Paine
I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable. -- John Lewis
Iâ??m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out. -- Colleen Hoover
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. -- John le Carre
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. -- Ron Paul
Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free. -- Tian Dayton
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself. -- Stephen A. Smith
Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it. -- Iyanla Vanzant
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions. -- Abigail Adams
Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better. -- Simon Sinek
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. -- John Brady
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. -- Alice Walker
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable. -- Najib Razak
We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now. -- Oprah Winfrey
You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth. -- Julia Hill
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are. -- Zachary Quinto
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family. -- Timothy Keller
An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?" -- John Kador
The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain. -- Bill Crawford
Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line. -- Ron Wyden
I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs. -- John F. Kerry
Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment. -- Judith Hanson Lasater
800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past. -- Djemal Pasha
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him. -- Philo Farnsworth
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust. -- Mike Quigley
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust. -- Mike Quigley
Â?Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schoolsÂ?not weapons of mass destruction.Â? -- George W. Bush
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. -- Victoria Woodhull

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