Quotes About Accountability

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

I do think we need to hold countries accountable who violate trade agreements that are already in place. We need to get stronger about enforcement, that in the future if we strike a trade agreement, toughening up labor standards and environmental standards and enforcement standards is something we absolutely need to do.

When you get to a team whether you're traded, drafted, or signed, you owe it to the organization and your teammates to give it your all.

I will never demand to be traded. Because if I do, then I'm at fault, I'm the bad guy, I'm the crybaby, I'm immature.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios at all.

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater