Quotes About Accountability

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Journalists must work to earn the trust of those they aim to serve.

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Mayors are judged by results.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

In city government, it's about getting things done, not being judged on a scorecard of whether you said yes or no on a certain thing.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

You know, when men perform in combat, they're expected to perform well. That's part of being masculine. And when one of them doesn't perform well, that man alone has let the team down, and that man alone is judged for it.

I have been guilty of running here, there and everywhere and not being enough of a goal threat. As a striker, you are judged on your goals.

You get judged on your results.