Quotes About Accountability

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point out what we think they should be doing differently. But when it comes to our relationship with the United States, we do speak with one voice.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

I did not seek to sell U.S. secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

As leaders, it's our job to hold people accountable and to produce results for our partners, customers, and families.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.