Quotes About Accountability

If you want to replace an existing governor, you'd better tell people what you're going to do and how you're going to govern.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

The goal is to make sure everyone has got their lead pipes replaced, and I know that's moving forward in the city of Flint. My job is to make sure that we have accountability and ensure we are getting the job done.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something.

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

If you went and did a microscopic investigative report at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Carolina, Indiana - what are you talking about? You're always going to have some stuff come out that will be looked upon as not being good.

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.

And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

In many cases, here we are, putting out reports that we're spending $100 million a year on, and we're telling the public, 'Oh, you don't have access to them.'

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.