Accountability Quotes - Page 5

• Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

  Paul Wellstone

  Practice, Needs, Cards

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• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Military, War, Commitment

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• We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Country, Law, Government

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• I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Iraq, People, Justice

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• Intrapreneurs consider them-selves on a mission to help society, to give it what it needs and wants, to truly serve others and improve themselves. Like all producers, they believe in a deep accountability, refuse to assign blame, don't believe in failure, and give their heart and sould to truly serve the customer and benefit society.

  Oliver DeMille

  Believe, Heart, Self

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• I think one of the first steps - and I'm glad we were able to reach, again, a bipartisan agreement - is an accountability side. People are still shocked to find out that many of the same people that have been involved in really lying about the numbers in regards to wait time are still on the job. What we have done is we have come up with a crafted piece of bipartisanship that will, in fact, give the secretary the ability to fire those that have lied to him with an appeal process built in. I think that that will send a clear message to those who want to fudge the numbers.

  Jeff Miller

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

  Joe Baca

  Needs, Tools, Today

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• You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

  Stacie Orrico

  Artist, Empty Life, Leaving

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• It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Responsibility, Film, Unusual

  "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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• However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Epidemics, Practice

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• I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

  Scott McCallum

  Ideas, Issues, People

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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

  Believe, School, Home

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• When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Enlightenment, Information, Debate

  "Kosovar President Atifete Jahjaga: the Four Key Ingredients for Peace". thehill.com. June 14, 2012.

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• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

  Dean Acheson

  Funny, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977

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• For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

  Butch Otter

  Responsibility, Idaho, Government

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• A local company has more accountability.

  Paul Hawken

  Company, Locals

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• It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

  Jim Costa

  Party, Land, Doe

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• We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Responsibility, Practice, Distribution

  "NAACP to sue gun makers". www.cnn.com. July 12, 1999.

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• 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?

  Arundhati Roy

  Army, America, People

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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• At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

  Michelle Malkin

  Media, Land, White

  "Obama's Cloud-Based Transparency" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 30, 2011.

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• The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Wall, Real

  "Elizabeth Warren Blasts Wall Street, Scott Brown In First Massachusetts Senate Debate" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Our World, Voice

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Independent, Government

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• The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Giving, Realization

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