Quotes About Accountability

Power is not to be dropped from a plane

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

The responsibility matrix is often referred to as a RACI ("Ray-Cee") matrix or RASIC ("Ray-Sick") matrix. The acronyms represent each level of potential responsibility. R—Responsible A—Accountable C—Consulted I—Informed R—Responsible A—Approve S—Support I—Informed C—Consulted

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Le destin, ça n'existe pas, trancha froidement Shino. Le destin, c'est l'excuse de ceux qui ne veulent pas être responsables de leur vie.

He could live with them playing badly now and again, he told them, but he demanded 100 per cent on the pitch in every single game.

He became as demanding of himself as he was with his players and staff but, in everything he did, he always made it a priority to explain why he was asking them to do something. He was always the first to arrive and the last to leave, working mornings and afternoons at the training ground. Every aspect of running the team had to be under his control: he demanded daily reports and updates from all his staff. Nothing was left to chance.

Look at him! Him, that one there! He's hiding! Your team-mates need to know that you are always available!' he'll shout, pointing a finger at the culprit. 'Before passing the ball, you need to know where you're passing it to; if you don't know, it's better to keep it; give it to your goalie, but don't give it to your opponent

Por ley la gestión de las cocinas (de los reclusorios) debía decidirse por concurso público. En teoría diversas empresas presupuestaban y las autoridades elegían la alternativa más eficiente. Esta versión de cuentos de hadas no se la creían ni las hadas

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

The violence of the feelings of crowds is also increased, especially in heterogeneous crowds, by the absence of all sense of responsibility.

In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her "parachute -- and the other accepts this role -- both will fall to the ground.

that no kindly providence was going to save you from the results of what you did, and that you had better be sure of your own strength because you could never be sure of anybody else's.

Growing up means learning to be responsible for others—and embracing the great joys those responsibilities can bring. Homer taught me that building my life around someone other than myself, making myself responsible for someone else's life, is one of the most rewarding differences between being a kid and being an adult.

Los gobiernos estatales son los responsables, por ejemplo, de que en México sólo se castiguen en promedio cinco de cada 100 homicidios dolosos, pues la persecución de los homicidios no es una facultad federal, sino local.

Todos somos de algún modo clientes y víctimas del Estado deficitario. No queremos pagar lo que cuesta nuestro gobierno. Por eso tenemos un Estado en quiebra que, a la larga, simplemente nos cuesta más.

La ciudadanía mexicana quiere un Estado que cumpla con una enorme cantidad de compromisos públicos, pero no está dispuesta a pagar en impuestos lo que espera que su gobierno le devuelva en servicios. Tiene suspendido el vínculo fundamental que hay entre pagar impuestos y exigir cuentas al gobierno. Exige pero no paga y paga sin exigir.

El gobierno estableció una idea de lo público donde nada cuesta y nadie rinde cuentas, donde las finanzas del gobierno son un bien de todos que viene de ninguna parte, y nadie tiene que cuidarlo, y todos pueden meterle mano cuando les toca.

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.