Quotes About Accountability

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.

Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

Be honest with yourself about what you're blowing off. A little cancellation here or a bow-out there can add up... but only if you refuse to acknowledge your actions.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

I'm banking on the fact that there are still good people in government who will prevent this. I've been a journalist for more than 33 years, and at Rappler we refuse to change, I refuse to be bullied.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.

The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.

The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.