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Quotes About Accountable

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Political solutions-accountable to the people and enforceable by their elected representatives- deserve another shot before we throw in the towel and settle for corporate codes, independent monitors and the privatisation of our collective rights as citizens.
~ Naomi Klein
We are accountable to each other; having an equitable Minnesota benefits everyone, not just the disenfranchised.
~ Ilhan Omar
In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
~ Jan Schakowsky
The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?
~ Rod Lurie
The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.
~ Khloe Kardashian
I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.
~ Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads. The companies create these entities with fake names - like 'Citizens for Nice Puppies' - which means that the sources of the money are unaccountable.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
Right now, we as a team and myself, we set a standard, we kind of teased the city of New York a little bit. Because now everybody expects us to play at this level, this high level, that's where we hold ourselves accountable and push ourselves in this offseason to come back and be at that level or even better.
~ Carmelo Anthony
Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.
~ George Patton
I am but a tuning fork of flesh, struck by the hand of the Creator. I am but a servant of destiny, yet I am accountable.
~ J.R. Ward
As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
~ J. T. Walsh
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.
~ J. Paul Getty
Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.
~ Brian Schatz
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
~ Victoria Woodhull
The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.
~ Sonny Perdue
Again, when it comes to enforcement of our community standards, we support people's rights to demonstrate, but we don't care about who you are or your politics are. If you engage in violence in this city, you will be held accountable.
~ Ted Wheeler
A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
~ James Otis
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
~ Diane Cilento
Our democracy needs a robust press to hold our leaders accountable and cover the important issues facing our communities. The First Amendment belongs to all of us.
~ Freepress.net
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
~ Paddy Ashdown
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
~ Patricia Hill Collins