Quotes About Accountability

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.

The American people deserve to have absolute confidence in their President. They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties demanded of the office, and they deserve to have full transparency on the mental state of their highest elected leader.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.