Quotes About Accountability

I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.

I don't like when people come out and say 'sources say' and this and that. Listen, if you can't put your name behind it, then don't say it. I don't believe in that.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

Oftentimes, secrecy involves creating spaces that are outside of the law but are outside the normal channels of oversight. And I think it's pretty easy to see that if you create spaces that are essentially outside the law, then you're creating spaces where anything can happen.

The idea that we should trust the security of our digital spaces to private companies that have no accountability except to themselves is ridiculous.