Accountability Quotes - Page 16

• Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Character, Humility, Men

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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

  Country, Government, Safety

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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

  Dumb, Trash, Predictions

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• One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Financial, Nonsense, Penalties

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2016

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

  Doug Berry

  Identity, Corporations, Ethical

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• Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Responsibility, Agency

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Strong, Wall, Hard Work

  "Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda — In Her Own Words" by Roger Hickey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2015.

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• If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Gone, Politics

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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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• The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

  Pedro Noguera

  Children, War, School

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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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• As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

  Kevin Allen

  Thinking, Self, Buoyancy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.

  Christy Clark

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Recovery, Independent

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and part of reinforcing trust is making sure that people feel accountability, and with accountability comes some degree of autonomy. You don't have one without the other.

  Harry West

  People, Needs, Degrees

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Because there's no accountability on line in the same way there is in real life, all of a sudden you can say like, yeah, I hate women; I want to kill women. And you can say that online, and not only will you find a place to say it, but you'll find a place to say it where people are like, yeah, me too.

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Real, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Agency, Government

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.

  Deborah Rhode

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.

  Deborah Rhode

  Decision, Want, Disregard

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

  Bonnie Raitt

  People, Sobriety, Stopping

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• Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Unions, Want

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to make people feel like participants in a common project of autonomous law-giving. Much more political accountability, much more participation. That didn't happen, I think, because the movers and shakers were more concerned with economic union than political union.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Numbers, Law

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
  teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Politics, Concerned

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