Quotes About Accountability

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

I had a difficult relationship with my parents, who died young, but they instilled self-discipline and a sense of honour and loyalty and accountability. I'm grateful for that.

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

It fascinates me that there's this instinct to blame something else when you're embarrassed or caught.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

I actually thought that the marketplace was pretty imbalanced when the consumer bureau was first created and financial institutions did not have someone looking carefully over their shoulder to look after the interest of consumers.

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.

I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.

One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.

Whatever you've been asked to do, whatever your role is today, do it really well, deliver results, and do it with integrity.

I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.

Whether its Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won't allow it.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

The role of the president is to take care of your money, and that's what I intend to do.