Quotes About Accountability

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

We've always tried to run a transparent and honest government.

Health reform should be open and transparent.

I'm in what feels like a pretty transparent fishbowl as mayor. People see you at the market, people see you at the diner, people see you wherever you are, talk to you. You don't shave, they're taking selfies of you. You come back from your jog, they're talking to you.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

Companies could step up to the plate time and time again and help out by cleaning up a groundwater system that's contaminated, being more transparent with the community when they have a problem, respecting that community, getting them out of harm's way.

You can't expect leaders and people to be intentional, take the steps that are needed, and be a part of making progress if you're not willing to be transparent about where we are and where we want to go.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.

I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

My philosophy is that I may not like all the questions that you ask, and you may not like all the answers that I give, but this is part of a transparent government.