Accountable Quotes

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When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today we act to hold faceless companies accountable -- companies that create instruments of destruction -- for their failure to make products safer and to warn of their inherent dangers,

- Billy Campbell

We want the groups who are doing a poor job of reporting potential beach hazards to be made accountable.

- Chris Evans

I think it`s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I`m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

- Anderson Cooper

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

- Arundhati Roy

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

- Donald Rumsfeld

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that`s what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else`s life.

- Herschel Walker

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

- Jesse Ventura

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We`re making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

- Jim Doyle

Have I come out of the game making a defensive mistake? Yeah. He doesn`t really discriminate. Everybody is held accountable ... He seldom pulls a guy for an offensive mistake, taking a bad shot, anything like that. The leash is shorter on the defensive end.

- Jerry Stackhouse

It`s frustrating, especially when you don`t accomplish your goals you set out at the top of the season. Guys have to hold themselves accountable. Management will have to do something this summer to bring in the right type of guys that want to play the right way.

- Marcus Camby

Everybody has to be accountable. We`re going to (have to) stay out of trouble and not having guys tired out in the streets from partying all the time.

- Fred Taylor

He brings all the things you look for in a head coach. He is prepared, he is focused, he obviously wants to win and he has a plan. He is going to be successful and get done what he wants done with or without you. That I do like. He holds everybody accountable and he is not afraid to tell someone that they are messing up. Everyone has to be accountable and know their role and take care of their job and be focused and be intense.

- Jason Taylor

Hold up your end of the bargain. Get out there and bust (your tail) trying to do your best for your teammates. And when you hold up your end of the bargain and you are accountable to everybody else on the team, things fall into place.

- Joey Harrington

I think everybody realizes the importance of playing for your teammates. When you get in those kind of games where everything just kind of seems to snowball out of control, it`s important that you don`t lose focus and start pointing fingers. ... When you hold up your end of the bargain and you`re accountable to everybody else on the team, then things will fall into place.

- Joey Harrington

I don`t think it was necessarily just the players` decision. I think (Hartley) should be accountable, but that`s not for me to say. It`s tough to prove something like that and I`m sure their players aren`t going to say anything.

- Darcy Tucker

I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport than if they weren`t involved in our sport. And if you think about it, someone was held accountable maybe to a higher degree because they are involved in the marketing of alcohol.

- Jeff Burton

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

- Steve Ballmer

A lot of this stuff was clearly visible and the parents should have known, ... I think parents should be accountable for their kids` actions.

- John Stone

sustainable, engaged, global, responsive and accountable university.

- John Peters

Someone needs to be held accountable.

- John Fitzgerald

It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping. The unfortunate part of this BALCO chapter is that these two athletes knew they were guilty of doping and they wasted everyone`s time and resources attempting to run from the consequences of their actions.

- Terry Madden

It is always a great day for clean athletes when individuals who cheat are held accountable and stripped of the rewards gained through doping.

- Terry Madden

I believe they are guilty and responsible for taking Diane`s life, and I want to make sure they are held accountable.

- Sharon Smith

Radio content is never captured and catalogued in a systematic way, so there`s no way to hold radio show hosts accountable for their words.

- David Brock

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody`s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

- Bob Graham

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

- Bob Graham

It`s time to say enough is enough. This legislation is about holding the industry accountable for its marketing practices.

- Michael Baker

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

- Roy Barnes

The thousands of Americans, including Greens, who protested in the streets in early 2003 were right. We need to hold public officials who got us into the Iraq war accountable. Being right doesn`t make us proud, it makes us angry and sorrowful for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the more than 2,300 U.S. service members, and the hundreds of civilian contractors.

- Michael Berg

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

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

Pulling kids from line really shakes a lot of people up, ... It is important to keep teachers accountable.

- Bruce Graham

we in the civil rights community need to hold the senators accountable, all the senators, for their vote on any nominee. And we need to ask them, ... what are you looking for in a judge and where do you draw the line and at what point will you step up and do the right thing?

- Stephanie Jones

And gradually they`re beginning to recognize the fact that there`s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it`s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

- Wole Soyinka

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

- Helen Thomas

We have to mend our ways and remember we have a public to whom we are accountable and to whom we have to explain and justify ourselves.

- Peter Mandelson

When you make speeches, you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

- William Bradley

As we integrate Duke Energy and Cinergy to create a platform for continued growth, we thought it important to identify early the leader who would be accountable for the new company`s financial systems and controls.

- Paul Anderson

That`s what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

- John Prescott

Isn`t that what it is all about, accountability? Those who break our immigration laws should be held accountable. Those who hire illegal aliens should be held accountable. And those who turn the other way and claim there is no problem should be held accountable.

- Tom Price

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.

- Adam Clymer

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

- Adam Timmerman

In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens` rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation`s history.

- Ajay Nand

Now a company`s power is becoming bigger and less accountable than it ever was before. It was bad enough when it was just a big, national industry.

- Al Hershey

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

- Al Hutchinson

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

- Alan Johnston

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

- Alan Stissel

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They`re accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected.

- Alisa Lane's