Quotes About Accountability

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Power's twin is responsibility.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

We don't know where our food comes from. We don't know a lot of things about what is happening financially. This creates the "power over" kind of feeling.

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.