Quotes About Accountability

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

But the simple availability of information about corruption tends not to produce genuine accountability because the politically active part of the population are members of clientelistic networks.

When liberal democracies work well, state, law, and accountability all reinforce one another

However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.

a politically developed liberal democracy includes all three sets of institutions—the state, rule of law, and procedural accountability—

highly corrupt governments usually have big problems in delivering services, enforcing laws, and representing the public interest.

In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab.

China was the first world civilization to create a modern state. But it created a modern state that was not restrained by a rule of law or by institutions of accountability to limit the power of the sovereign.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

en México «hay un pacto de impunidad tácito entre los políticos». Los políticos no investigan a otros políticos;

nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

Mirrors and soap would teach self-discipline. Polished shoes, clean shirts and a shaved face signalled an inner purity that could be monitored by others as well as by oneself.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Try to improve yourself rather than seeing mistakes of other's

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.