Quotes About Accountability

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Be good or don't get caught.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.