Quotes About Accountability

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.