Quotes About Accountability

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.

You've got to live and die by your decisions.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Benghazi matters because Americans deserve to know the truth from those entrusted to lead and govern.

The president has to govern.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing countries and, particularly, corruption.

I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we need those schools to have the governance and the leadership to succeed.

Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.

I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

Democracy, as a governing system, is built on the foundational concept that when you cast your ballot, that ballot ensures your voice, will, and perspective will be accounted for in the direction of your city, state, or country.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.