Quotes About Accountability

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

It always matters, whether or not you can trust your government.

I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Trust is very much a part of our democracy.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Public office is a public trust.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'