Quotes About Accountability

If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

When you get the armband, everyone looks to you to lead, and when things go wrong, then you get criticised the most, and I need to take that on the chin.

I do believe that both countries, China and Russia, that both of them are responsible countries.

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even though people are not going to like you for it.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Every day you live as a Christian, you are accountable to live for Christ.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

I take my job really, really seriously. I also take being a citizen very seriously.

Every citizen is responsible for the society in which we are living.

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.