Quotes About Accountability

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

As a programme-maker you've got a responsibility to examine your choices and how they play in the wider world.

Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

So far, we have a perfect record of WikiLeaks having never revealed information that exposed a source over 10 years.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire U.S. government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some companies have handled Wikileaks.

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.

Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

Being editor of WikiLeaks was always a pretty difficult job.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.

While it may be tempting to bask fully in the glory of success, remember: When a CEO takes too much credit for the good, they will receive far too much criticism for the bad.

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.