Accountable Quotes
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We need an operational entity -- somebody who's accountable for it. (Quote by - Augustus Owsley Stanley)
You work, You give players expectations, hold them accountable, make them perform. (Quote by - Audley Shaw)
Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves. (Quote by - Tom Harkin)
In my mind it's unconscionable that it happened and in my mind people have to be held accountable. How is it this kind of thing is even in the minds of young men?(Quote by - Creg Williams)
To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them. (Quote by - Bishop George Berkeley)
We've moved from a team approach to a single portfolio manager, who is responsible for the inclusion of the team's ideas into the portfolio. Analysts are held accountable for the strength of their recommendations. (Quote by - David Marks)
These disasters continue to happen because this is a decaying state. The corrupt government officials control all sectors and are responsible for all disasters we face. But the government would not hold itself accountable. (Quote by - Hesham Kassem)
I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well. (Quote by - Ray Emery)
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. (Quote by - John Hickenlooper)
We are all accountable to each other. And when Megan [Willis] can clear the bases like she did today, we are going to succeed. (Quote by - Cat Osterman)
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Amy Colella)
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. (Quote by - Helen Thomas)
We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities. (Quote by - Anthony Romero)
They have been told they must be accountable. (Quote by - Peter Mitchell)
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens. (Quote by - Amy McConnell)
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
Now, I do implore those who are listening to me to realize the gravity of all these questions. There is nothing that you do in all your life for which you are more accountable to God, or which is more serious, than the vote which many of you are going to give at the approaching general election (1892). I dare say you have already made up your mind which party you are going to vote for, but I confess I have some suspicion that, even in an unusually intelligent audience like this, if I brought some of you up to this platform and elicited from you for whom you were going to vote, and then were permitted to cross examine you as to why you were going to give that vote, the answers which you would give would not satisfy yourselves or the audience. (Quote by - Hugh Price Hughes)
The U.S. must remain accountable for the promise — under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty — it made to clean up Pueblo Chemical. The people of Pueblo deserve no less. (Quote by - Ken Salazar)
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family life...If the wizard is exposed, and we realize we've been lied to, it's frightening, like political vertigo or instantaneous sobriety. After all, once you've seen the light, there's no going back and, at that point, whether you like it or not, you are accountable to truth and responsible for creating change. (Quote by - Alix Olson)
We are disappointed that after hearing from so many Internet stakeholders about why this proposal is anti-competitive, the ICANN Board still approved a known bad deal. The Board has left NTIA with no choice but to reject this deal to ensure that competitive and accountable operation of the .com domain registry is not lost forever to consumers. The long-term interests of the entire Internet community must prevail over short-term expediency for a few. (Quote by - Champ Mitchell)
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. (Quote by - Stephanie Jones)
The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable. (Quote by - Benjamin Crump)
I repeat, that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, and that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
When you make speeches, you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. (Quote by - William Bradley)
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
I find this more troubling than deception in the political campaigns. The level of misunderstanding and the consequences of misunderstanding can be much more dramatic. If we don't hold the right people accountable and the right processes accountable, we'll risk having another catastrophe without real preparedness, and more people will die needlessly. (Quote by - Kathleen Hall Jamieson)
We want the groups who are doing a poor job of reporting potential beach hazards to be made accountable. (Quote by - Chris Evans)
If you're below (40), the rationale is that you don't have a statistically valid number. But we are still accountable for students' growth. (Quote by - Jim Hamilton)
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?(Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
If you're holding highly educated teachers accountable, the same should be done for grading the exam. It was always believed that professional educational companies with experience in this would be doing the grading. This is definitely one step below. (Quote by - Pat Santeramo)
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. (Quote by - Amy Goodman)
What's so tragic about it all is that it was such an unnecessary act of violence, ... I can assure you we will use every resource available to us to make sure that he stands accountable. (Quote by - Anthony Lagouranis)
What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11. (Quote by - Jennifer Daskal)
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God(Quote by - John Tyler)
Good men prefer to be accountable. (Quote by - Michael Edwardes)
Your shareholders deserve nothing less and will hold you accountable if you fail to take this action now. (Quote by - Richard Grubman)
We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. (Quote by - Mildred Newman)
I made the decision. I'm accountable. (Quote by - Janet Reno)
You have to make people accountable and sometimes people don't like to do that kind of thing. We didn't have that gutsy-type of person that makes a difference. (Quote by - Margo Jonker)
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
He has character, integrity, honesty, loyalty. ... He's trustworthy and accountable. He respects the game. His values jumped off the page to me. (Quote by - Frank McCourt)
What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible. (Quote by - Michael Howard)
That's the purpose of us coming here. We want to hold the people accountable. (Quote by - Maria Leach)
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. (Quote by - Terry Madden)
I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions. (Quote by - Richard Branson)
Lord of myself, accountable to none. But to my conscience, and my God alone. (Quote by - John Oldham)
He has a high level of integrity, he's honest, hard-working, energetic, trustworthy, loyal, takes responsibility, accountable, loves and respects the game, loves and respects people. (Quote by - Frank McCourt)
We will not be able to move past this scandal as a nation until there is full independent investigation of all that has gone wrong in our detention and interrogation policy, and all the persons found responsible for these shameful policies are held accountable. (Quote by - Ted Kennedy)
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. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Quote by - Moliere)
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. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable. (Quote by - Marc Rotenberg)
There has to be responsibility. Somebody's got to step up to the place and be accountable. (Quote by - Don Newbauer)
I think the difference is that with Eric we have to be more responsible and held accountable for our budgets, which is really what it should be. (Quote by - Shelley Smith)
We condemn the FARC in the strongest possible terms for this barbaric terrorist act. We also demand that the FARC accept responsibility for this cold-blooded murder and turn over those of its members who perpetrated this crime to be held accountable by the courts. (Quote by - Lee McClenny)
She didn't report the crime. I think she has to be held accountable. (Quote by - Maria Solaun)
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. (Quote by - Roy Barnes)
I am lord of myself, accountable to none. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We're going to hold those accountable that need to be held accountable. (Quote by - Barry Cohen)
The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself,(Quote by - Ellis Hobbs)
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. (Quote by - John Gardner)
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. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Regardless of the numbers, everyone is held accountable for every single child. (Quote by - Bob McLaughlin)
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. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
