Quotes About Accountability

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Im generally of the view that we should know the names of those who enacted and justified imperial power - but only if the glorifying can be supplemented with plaques that tell us the shameful histories of, for example active participation in the slave trade or highly successful and profitable lives extracted from slave plantations.

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

I'd love a rule to be introduced that you can only ring up and complain about a programme if you can prove you've watched the whole programme.

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative.

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

Performance is better than promise. Exuberant assurances are cheap.

When you make a promise, keep it.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

Above all else, protect your brand. If you or your company doesn't live up to your brand's promise, own up to your error.