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• Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Abuse

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• The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

  Colin Powell

  Mean, Government, People

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• Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

  Evgeny Morozov

  Vocabulary, Innovation, Progress

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• We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Balance, Return

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• The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Daughter, Jobs, War

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• A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Integrity, Government, People

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• An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Doe, Culture, Spirituality

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• Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in his infinite love and wisdom, may see fit to inflict upon the person, we must avoid judgment. Regardless of those circumstances and the Lord's divinely imposed punishment, followers of Christ are to be loving and compassionate to those who are hurt by the act of suicide.

  Brent L. Top

  Suicide, Hurt, Punishment

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• We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Iraq, Leader

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• It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

  Grant-Lee Phillips

  Past, Insult

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• Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

  Charles Stanley

  Messages, Sin, Trendy

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• The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Law, Gone

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• It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

  David Limbaugh

  Flames, Lines, Our Society

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• Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Development, Path

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• Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Powerful, Recovery

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

  David Cameron

  Real, Legitimacy, Source

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. Jnauary 2013.

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• I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Responsibility, Thinking, Want

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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

  People, Chicago, Type

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

  Carly Fiorina

  Running, Want, Way

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are.

  Seymour Hersh

  Iraq, Issues, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.

  Vandana Shiva

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

  Tom Ridge

  Responsibility, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Oftentimes, when a woman demands accountability, respect, or consideration, she is crazy or nagging or whatever.

  Roxane Gay

  Crazy, Demand, Nagging

  Source: therumpus.net

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• American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

  Cornel West

  Drones, Citizens, Judicial Review

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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