Quotes About Accountability

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

I don't do my job as minister based on polls.

People often complain that celebrities after joining politics are not seen once the polls are over. But I am not like them. I would work for development.

Azam Khan must be barred from contesting polls.

When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.

The mistake that all 'long-term poor people' make is putting others under a microscope in an attempt to set blame. That right there is a true loser's mentality (or 'poppycock' if you will).

In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else - whether they're gay, Mexican, Jewish, black - and saying, 'They are different than you. They're the reason you're in the shape you're in. You're not responsible.' And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.

You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

I'm not afraid to challenge guys. I'm not afraid to put guys in positions to help the team. And I'm not beyond accepting criticism and challenges myself. I think that's why guys are attracted to wanting to play and be around me. They know I'm all in on winning.

Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to a pretty high standard.

If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself.