Accountability Quotes
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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.
Vijay Mallya
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I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
Yousef Munayyer
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
Naomi Klein
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Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
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Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.
John C. Calhoun
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
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Accountability is going to be very important for the international community,
Jack Straw
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I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.
Hakeem Jeffries
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By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
Ann Kirkpatrick
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I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
Campbell Newman
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
Vikas Swarup
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Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.
Evgeny Morozov
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
Barry Ritholtz
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When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.
Kenneth Langone
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I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.
Charlie Crist
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Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.
Marta Andreasen
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
Kailash Satyarthi
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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
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Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.
Pete Hoekstra
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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
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
Zack Wamp
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I have God, Jesus Christ: I'm Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have my parents that help me and my friends that are really great accountability partners to me.
Christina Grimmie
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
Fareed Zakaria