Accountability Quotes - Page 17

• Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Leader

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Korea

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

  Diane Ravitch

  Goal

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.18, Basic Books

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• The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and civil society – to focus on the legitimacy of their own actions.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Powerful, Book, Government

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• Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.

  Pete Hegseth

  America, Dollars, Veteran

  "Pentagon Waste Undermines Readiness, Proves Need for Audit" by Pete Hegseth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

  Kent Beck

  Honesty, Responsibility, Practice

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• In Serbia's case, the unresolved accountability for the Bytyqi brothers massacre needs to be resolved. And we would urge you to give this matter prompt and immediate attention to bring those responsible to justice for this tragedy.

  Ben Cardin

  Brother, Giving, Justice

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• I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

  Sissela Bok

  Running, Believe, Government

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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• The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

  Wayne Mack

  Godly, Intimate Relationships, People

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• People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

  Salman Khurshid

  Writing, People, Culture

  "‘Can’t be taken seriously till you are 70’". Interview with Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, www.telegraphindia.com. 1995.

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• The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

  Andrew Card

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, multimedia.cbs.com. January 21, 2001.

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Needs, Rich, Accounting

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• The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission.  And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Military, Responsibility

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• Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
  in moral truth and accountability they are.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Decision, Political

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

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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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• I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

  Campbell Newman

  Political, Lines, Want

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• People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  People, Expectations, Competition

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Sheep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.

  Mira Sorvino

  Impact, Slavery, Way

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• I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not otherwise been documented and exposed. All the information you want is available instantly, which is overwhelming, but I think can have a positive change on the political process and accountability for leaders and corporations.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• The whole country saw how unfit [Hillary Clinton] was at the Townhall , where she refused to take accountability for her failed policies in the Middle East that have produced millions of refugees, unleashed horror of radical Islamic terrorism all over, and made us less safe than ever before.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Islamic, Middle East

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [Some outlets] shouldn't even call themselves news providers; they're just entertainment gossip without any sort of accountability or fact-checking.

  Scott Eastwood

  Gossip, News, Facts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.

  John Kao

  Kids, Challenges, Done

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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